Gracefully stopping a java thread

Question

How do I stop a thread in Java. I created it, but it is taking too much of time to execute. Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Answer 1

The preferable way will be to use a run() of the Thread and guard it by a boolean variable and set it to true from the outside when you want to stop it, something like:

class MyThread extends Thread
{
  volatile boolean finished = false;

  public void stopMe()
  {
    finished = true;
  }

  public void run()
  {
    while (!finished)
    {
      //your code
    }
  }
}