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As @gvdhoorn said, pub/sub is an asynchronous communication system.

To be sure your publisher send one message before closing, you can add a line to wait for a subscriber to subscribe to your topic.

You can do that using r_arm_comand_publisher.getNumSubscribers() which send the number of subscribers currently connected to your topic.

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