Newbie - Help needed starting with Threads

Question

Hi Friends,
I have a class which extends thread and all it does is displays its name and then goes to sleep. So, I have this in my run method:
public void run() {
        System.out.println("Name: "+name);
        try{
             Thread.sleep(1000);
        }catch(Exception e){
          e.printStackTrace();
    }Now I have a tester class which created objects of these class and they should keep running until the user explicitly stops the program. So, I have this in my tester class:
Thread one = new MyClass("one");
Thread one = new MyClass("two");
one.start();
two.start();They run fine for one time but how can i make them run continously?? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

Micks80 wrote:
I tried to add that while loop but it throws IllegalStateException because I guess you cannot call the start method more then once...
So any other ways to accomplish this???As suggested in reply #1 put the while loop inside the run method of the Runnable.
Also it is better for MyClass to implement Runnable rather than extending Thread. It is always better to implement Runnable than extend Thread.