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Automation API might be a solution to your problem. Unfortunately, it's not yet supported by the Java SDK.

So for Java, Pulumi always calls System.exit() before returning from Pulumi.run()? Similar in other languages too?

historically, pulumi programs are run by the pulumi CLI so the library expects it can call exit afterwards and pulumi-java follows this pattern as well.