How to terminate a method??? Help Please!

Question

Hi, I have the next class which I use to get all the html links from a page passed as url. The problem is that the process terminate with System.exit(). When the class was stand alone this was no problem, but now I need the class being a part of a more complez program and I don�t know how to stop the execution when it gives me all links.
Here is the class:
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import java.lang.*;
class getLinks {
final int lim = 100;
int i,cont = 0;
static String links[][] = new String [100][2];
Reader getReader(String uri) throws IOException {
if (uri.startsWith("http:")) {
// Retrieve from Internet.
URLConnection conn = new URL(uri).openConnection();
return new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream());
else
// Retrieve from file.
return new FileReader(uri);
public String [][] getHrefs(String url){
EditorKit kit = new HTMLEditorKit();
Document doc = kit.createDefaultDocument();
// The Document class does not yet handle charset's properly.
doc.putProperty("IgnoreCharsetDirective",Boolean.TRUE);
try {
Reader rd = getReader(url);
kit.read(rd, doc, 0);
rd.reset();
ElementIterator it = new ElementIterator(doc);
javax.swing.text.Element elem;
while ((elem = it.next()) != null) {
SimpleAttributeSet s = (SimpleAttributeSet)elem.getAttributes().getAttribute(HTML.Tag.A);
if (s != null) {
links[0] = (s.getAttribute(HTML.Attribute.HREF)).toString(); // Urls
links[i][1] = (elem.getDocument().getText(elem.getStartOffset(), // Desc
elem.getEndOffset() - elem.getStartOffset())).toString();
i++;}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(0);
return links;
Any ideas? Thanks, Hidra.

Answer 1

Yes, is the logical, but when I remove that line the process never terminate. I don�t know why.