Stopping one route from another

[Deepak Rajagopal]

For various reasons we would like to stop the main route from a secondary route 
based on time and then restart it at a later point in time.
The camel page on this topic 
http://camel.apache.org/how-can-i-stop-a-route-from-a-route.html seems to 
indicate that we should use a thread to achieve this.
Is this still a valid thing to do? Our static security scans flag the use of 
unmanaged threads .
It is also not clear from this page whether the use of a latch alone might 
achieve the same ends?
Thanks