Patent ID: 7827444

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising: a non-transitory tangible computer-readable storage medium; and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the storage medium, configured to enable an apparatus, in response to execution of the instructions by the apparatus, to perform operations comprising: instantiating a plurality of instances of an exception handler, wherein each of the exception handler instances corresponds to a different one of a plurality of applications executing on the apparatus, wherein each of the exception handler instances is configured to stall an abnormal termination of the corresponding application upon receiving a non-stop stalling message from a message queue of the corresponding application, and to translate the received message and post the translated message back to the message queue of the corresponding application; and instantiating an abnormal application termination service configured to enable a user to control the instances of the exception handler in stalling or permitting abnormal terminations of the corresponding applications; wherein said instantiating of the plurality of instances of the exception handler is performed responsive to an instruction received from the abnormal application termination service.