When Teststand is expired, the java process communicating with Teststand engine is killed.

We are using an evaluation version of Teststand for development. We are using Teststand API in C code to communicate with the Teststand engine and in turn the java process communicates with the C code. But if the Teststand is expired, the java process is killed. Please suggest if there is a solution to stop the killing of java process when the teststand is expired.

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National Instruments
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