java.util.logging and addShutdownHook at shutdown

[Dave]

Hello,

I'm having trouble logging messages while the JVM is shutting down.
It seems that the logging infrastructure silently breaks as soon as
shutdown starts. In the program below, after sending a ctrl-c, I
still get "."s, but no logging messages, and no error messages either.
It seems to me that this limits logging in a crucial way, and I'd
like to find out that there is a way around it. Can anyone shed light
on this?

Java 1.4.1_03-b02 running on WinXP


import java.util.logging.*;

public class testing {

static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("testing");

public static void main(String[] args) {

Thread shutdown_thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
System.out.println("Shutting down");
try{
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
catch(InterruptedException e){
System.out.println("Sleep Interrupted");
}
System.out.println("down");
}});

Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(shutdown_thread);

try {
while (true) {
System.err.print(".");

logger.severe("+");
try{
Thread.sleep(100);
}
catch(InterruptedException e){
System.out.println("Sleep Interrupted");
}
}
} catch (Exception ee) {
System.out.println("done");
}
}
}