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J2EE Bad Practices: System.exit()
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Last revision (mm/dd/yy): 09/26/2008
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Description
It is never a good idea for a web application to attempt to shut down the application container. A call to System.exit() is probably part of leftover debug code or code imported from a non-J2EE application.
Risk Factors
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