How to access a Runnable object by Thread?

Question

Possible duplicate: need-help-returning-object-in-thread-run-method

Hello. I have a class implementing runnable and I have a List, storing Threads instantiated with

Answer 1

This is how you could implement this directly.

public static void main(String[] args) {
    // Keep a reference to the runnable object for later ...
    TestRunnable r = new TestRunnable();
    Thread t = new Thread(r);
    t.start();
    // Wait until the child thread has finished
    t.join();
    // Pull the result out of the runnable.
    System.out.println(r.foo);
}

However, the modern (less error prone) way to do this kind of thing is to use the higher-level concurrency classes in java.util.concurrent.