Who interrupts my thread?

Question

I understand what an InterruptedException does and why it is thrown. However in my application I get it when waiting for SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait() on a thr

Answer 1

In general, if you want to know who is doing something, attach a debugger, put a breakpoint, and there you go. No need for guessing if you can reproduce it!

In this case, you can put a breakpoint at Thread.interrupt(). If there are other threads that are being interrupted too (so you have "false positive" hits on the breakpoint), you could add a breakpoint condition (most IDE's allow you to do that easily), for example by checking the name of the thread.