How do you kill a Thread in Java?

Question

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

Answer 1

The question is rather vague. If you meant “how do I write a program so that a thread stops running when I want it to”, then various other responses should be helpful. But if you meant “I have an emergency with a server I cannot restart right now and I just need a particular thread to die, come what may”, then you need an intervention tool to match monitoring tools like jstack.

For this purpose I created jkillthread. See its instructions for usage.