Java Thread Programming

Chapter 5. Gracefully Stopping Threads

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Interrupting a Thread: interrupt()

• Suspending and Resuming Thread Execution

• Stopping a Thread

• The Best Replacement for stop(), suspend(), and resume()

• Daemon Threads

In all the examples presented so far in this book, new threads stop running when they die a natural death by returning from the run() method. At times, a thread may be busy doing some involved task for a while (maybe indefinitely) or perhaps may be sleeping for a long time. Sometimes it is necessary to pause or terminate a thread that is executing a lengthy operation whose duration could not be predetermined because of external dependencies like waiting on I/O or for a signal (notification) from another thread. This chapter explores ...