Friday June 30, 2006 I came across this article recently: A Safe Way to Stop a Java Thread. The author suggests an alternative for the deprecated Thread.stop() method. The code looks like
public class MyThread extends Thread {
private boolean threadDone = false;
public void done() {
threadDone = true;
}
public void run() {
while (!threadDone) {
// work here
// modify common data
}
}
}
MyThread.done() is supposed to be called by another thread that wants to stop a thread (that is running MyThread.run()). But, there is a problem here: threadDone variable is read by one thread and written by another thread. To ensure prompt communication of the stop-request, the threadDone variable must be volatile (or access to the threadDone variable must be synchronized):
volatile private boolean threadDone = false;
Please refer to this as well: Why Are Thread.stop, Thread.suspend, Thread.resume and Runtime.runFinalizersOnExit Deprecated?
