2008/11/19 Aidan Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Rajith Attapattu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Aidan Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> What strategy did you adopt? It would probably be possible to change >>> the things that extend Thread to a composite that accept thread, or >>> implement Runnable. >>> >> >> I haven't really decided on a strategy yet and open to suggestions. >> Your suggestion also is similar to Gordon which I think is very good. >> However looking at the code in IOSender/Receiver as well as the Dispatcher I >> see they extends the Thread class directly. > > I think extending Runnable is probably cleaner, it can just be > allocated from a threadpool (which could use vanilla, RT or any other > flavour of thread it desired). I don't see any reason why they have to > extend Thread directly. >
I agree - I think having things implement Runnable is cleaner and more flexible than extending Thread directly. Cheers, Rob
