Thread stop

[Jos� M. Crist�bal]

Hi everyone.
I'm developing an application using JMX. Every managed object extends an abstract class that includes a method called start(). That method has to be called in order to start the managed object. I want to invoke that method using threads but that invocation could stop the thread for a long time.
I have included a timeout for that method execution, but the only way to properly kill that threat is using the Thread.stop() method. I know that the stop method is deprecated, but the rest methods provided are not suitable for this situation.
I have read almost the rest of the Threads and Synchonization forum looking for topics with situations like that but i couldn't find them.
thanks a lof for reading. Any help will be appreciated!!!

[Stefan Wagner]

you don't have access to the 'run ()' - methods of these threads?
Then you simply write:

 
private boolean stopped;
public void stopIt () {stopped = true;}
public void run ()
{
do
{
// your code here...
}while (!stopped)
}

[Jos� M. Crist�bal]

Thanks for your answer.
The run() method of that thread contains an invocation to an object's method called start(). That object is not a Thread, so the start() is not the Thread's start() method.
I don't know the operations included into that start() method and the invocation is going to be executed using the MBeanServer (that's part of JMX). For example, if the start() method contains an infinite loop the Thread remains running infinitely. This is the kind of situation I'm trying to avoid.
I hope I've been clear enough.

[Yaroslav Chinskiy]

Did you try to interrupt the method?

[Jos� M. Crist�bal]

Of course I Tried!!!

In fact, the interrupt method works if the inner Thread remains slept for a long time, for example, if I sleep a Thread into an infinite loop like this

while (true){
Thread.getCurrentThread().sleep(x milis);

}

The result of interrupting the thread is the finalization of the while loop and the processing of the following lines of code. But that's not the situation I'm trying to solve. I want to make the execution stop finally without processing more instructions.

Anyway, thanks for your replies.

PD. Excuse the written code. I'm not sure this particular method exists in that way..... sorry....

[Yaroslav Chinskiy]

well in the example u gave, u can try to check Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted() and skip the rest of the run method.

But since you dont control the content of the start() in the monitored object.....

This is interesting q. please let us know if you find the answare.

[kay lin]

why don't you try to post some snippets of the code here,
then it'd be easier for us to understand, hence, we'd be able to help you better?