How a thread should close itself in Java?

Question

This is a short question. At some point my thread understand that it should suicide. What is the best way to do it:

1. Thread.currentThread().interrupt();

Answer 1

If the run method ends, the thread will end.

If you use a loop, a proper way is like following:

// In your imlemented Runnable class:
private volatile boolean running = true;

public void run()
{
   while (running)
   {
      ...
   }
}


public void stopRunning()
{
    running = false;
}

Of course returning is the best way.