how to kill or stop a thread in java2

[allyou wantis]

i have certain number thread running and i want to stop some of them.Is there any way to do it in java2.

[Stefan Krompass]

Hi,
my solution looks something like this:

public class MyThread extends Thread {
  private boolean running;
  public MyThread() {
    running = true;
  }
  public void run() {
    while (running) {
      // do something
    }
  }
  public void stopWork() {
    running = false;
  }
}
...
MyThread thread = new MyThread();
thread.start();
...
thread.stopWork();
...

cu
Stefan

[Jose Botella]

Welcome both of you to the Ranch!
allyou wantis please read our naming policy and adjust your displayed name accordingly, thank you.
The running variable should have been declared volatile.

[Yaroslav Chinskiy]

Can't you use interrupt() method?
Having stopWork() is great but what if this is not ur thread(does not have the method) or the thread is in sleep/wait mode, or waiting for IO (for example Socket s =server.accept())

[clio katz]

right.

both good suggestions, it seems to me!

stefan offers a nice, healthy-looking thread template, and yaroslav offers good advice about making provisions for (un)intended exit/shutdown

(i.e. "try" the 'do something' loop, "catch" InterruptedException, and possibly execute a "finally" block for clean shut-down)

hth