How can I kill a thread? without using stop();

Question

Thread currentThread=Thread.currentThread();
        public void run()
        {               

             while(!shutdown)
            {                                  


        

Answer 1

Good way to do it would be to use a boolean flag to signal the thread.

class MyRunnable implements Runnable {

    public volatile boolean stopThread = false;

    public void run() {
            while(!stopThread) {
                    // Thread code here
            }
    }

}

Create a MyRunnable instance called myrunnable, wrap it in a new Thread instance and start the instance. When you want to flag the thread to stop, set myrunnable.stopThread = true. This way, it doesn't get stopped in the middle of something, only where we expect it to get stopped.