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When a Felix instance is embedded in a host application, the host application must inform the Felix instance that it is embedded. To do this, the host application sets the "felix.embedded.execution" configuration property to "true"; this can be accomplished in the same way that all configuration properties are set, i.e., passing it in to the Felix constructor via a property resolver. This property specifically controls whether or not the Felix instance will shutdown the JVM (i.e., call System.exit() when the framework is shutdown. When embedding Felix it is generally not desirable for Felix to shutdown the JVM; therefore, by setting this property to "true" it can be avoided.

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