How to design Java Application shutdown hook

Simple shutdown hooks can often be written as anonymous inner classes, as in this example:

Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread() {
public void run() { call_ur_method(); }
});

This idiom is fine as long as you'll never need to cancel the hook, in which case you'd need to save a reference to the hook when you create it.

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