How do you kill a Thread in Java?

Question

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

Answer 1

Generally you don't kill, stop, or interrupt a thread (or check wheter it is interrupted()), but let it terminate naturally.

It is simple. You can use any loop together with (volatile) boolean variable inside run() method to control thread's activity. You can also return from active thread to the main thread to stop it.

This way you gracefully kill a thread :) .