JVM shutdown hooks provide a clean and simple mechanism for registering application-specific behavior that performs the required cleanup work when a JVM terminates. It is a Java feature that let you have a piece of Java code run whenever the JVM terminates under one of the following conditions: - The program exits normally, such as when the last non-daemon thread exits or when the Runtime.exit() method is invoked. - The virtual machine is terminated in response to a user interrupt, such as typing CTRL-C, or a system-wide event, such as user logoff or system shutdown (for example, the JVM receives one of the interrupt signals SIGHUP (Unix Only), SIGINT, or SIGTERM). A shutdow...