Stop/Interrupt threads blocked on waiting input from socket

Question

As the title says I need a way to stop or interrupt a thread that is blocked waiting on an input from the socket.

Answer 1

Thread.interrupt() should be the method you're looking for. Be sure that your input-accessing methods also check for InterruptedException and ClosedByInterruptException.

Also look at the corresponding page in the Sun Concurrency Tutorial, as another solution suggests.