Naming conventions for threads?

Question

It\'s helpful to name threads so one can sort out which threads are doing what for diagnostic and debugging purposes.

Is there a particular naming convention for thr

Answer 1

Naming threads is useful and you should follow a naming convention that would for anything else, be that variables, methods or classes. Name them according to what they do and be succinct. If you ever run into a problem that requires a thread dump it will be nice to look at the name and know where to look in your code for the problem rather than examining stack traces and guessing.

The only different is that if there are multiple threads of the same type you really should add an index of some sort as thread names should be unique to satisfy certain APIs. It can also help with logging if you show the thread name to know how your application behaves with partial execution happening on different threads.