Get Thread By Name

Question

I have a multithreaded application and I assign a unique name to each thread through setName() property. Now, I want functionality to get access to the threads

Answer 1

You can find all active threads using ThreadGroup:

• Get your current thread's group
• Work your way up the threadgroup hierarchy by calling ThreadGroup.getParent() until you find a group with a null parent.
• Call ThreadGroup.enumerate() to find all threads on the system.

The value of doing this completely escapes me ... what will you possibly do with a named thread? Unless you're subclassing Thread when you should be implementing Runnable (which is sloppy programming to start with).