Using a separate thread to call the application's main method is
unnecessary – the context class loader of the current thread can be
updated instead – and makes exception and exit code handling more
complicated than it needs to be.

This commit updates the Launcher so that it calls the main method
runner using the current (main) thread. As a result, any exception
that's thrown will be caught by the JVM and result in a non-zero exit
code being returned from the process.

Closes gh-5922