How do you kill a Thread in Java?

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flybywire picture flybywire · Mar 22, 2009 · Viewed 539.4k times · Source

How do you kill a java.lang.Thread in Java?

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JaredPar picture JaredPar · Mar 22, 2009

See this thread by Sun on why they deprecated Thread.stop(). It goes into detail about why this was a bad method and what should be done to safely stop threads in general.

The way they recommend is to use a shared variable as a flag which asks the background thread to stop. This variable can then be set by a different object requesting the thread terminate.

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