> I read somewhere that Thread.stop() is now deprecated.
Yes, and it's very good.
> Now how on earth do we stop a thread ?
Just allow it to exit from its run() method.
Try to use this pattern: pattern is (run() can be in Thread subclass or
in Thread Runnable))
private boolean runEnabled_ = true;
private Object stopsync_ = new Object();
public void run() {
while(isRunEnabled())
{
... // do things in your thread
}
}
public void stop() // call this function from other thread when you want
to stop thread
{ syncrhonized(stopsync_) { runEnabled_ = false; } }
public boolean isRunEnabled()
{
boolean result;
synchronized(stopsync_) { result = runEnabled_; }
return result;
}
> I thought the solution would be Thread.interrupt()
> but that only works when the thread is sleeping, at least in JDK 1.1
> documentation.
Yes, it is just to awake waiting, joining or sleeping thread.
>It seems to be idiocy to have a start method and not have a stop method.
In single thread You can call method from outside but you cannot stop it
until it leaves (things like Ctrl-C do the trick but there is destroy()
method in Thread API that is the analog of such unnormal killer). What
do you think it is strange here?
See also
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/misc/threadPrimitiveDeprecation.html
Hope this help
Pavel
