How to stop a thread that is running forever without any use

Question

In the below code, i have a while(true) loop. considering a situation where there is some code in the try block where the thread is supposed to perform some tasks which take

Answer 1

Create a field boolean keepGoing that you set to true before starting your thread and replace while (true) with while (keepGoing). At some point, you decide where, simply change the value of keepGoing to false and it will exit the loop.