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Call to 'System.exit()' or related methods

Reports calls to System.exit(), Runtime.exit(), and Runtime.halt().

Invoking System.exit() or Runtime.exit() calls the shutdown hooks and terminates the currently running Java virtual machine. Invoking Runtime.halt() forcibly terminates the JVM without causing shutdown hooks to be started. Each of these methods should be used with extreme caution. Calls to these methods make the calling code unportable to most application servers.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

CallToSystemExit
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Portability

Use the option to ignore calls in main methods.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Call to 'System.exit()' or related methods inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore in main method

Default value:

Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection CallToSystemExit

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025