Having 2 objects running in separate threads

Question

I am accessing cobol programs using the microfocus runtime for java. The problem with it is that a you can only run one instance of a cobol program at the same time, unless they are in separate threads.
Example:
CobolTextSearch cobol1 = new CobolTextSearch();
CobolTextSearch cobol2 = new CobolTextSearch();
cobol1.execute("FAMILY");
cobol2.execute("HISTORY");
System.out.println(cobol1.getRecord());
System.out.println(cobol2.getRecord());The output of this program results in HISTORY for cobol1 and HISTORY for cobol2. Where as if they were run in separate threads, I would have got FAMILY for cobol1.
So my question is, is there any way I can run these two objects in separate threads so that any time I access the object it will be in its own thread? I cant just run them in separate threads on the execute because each getRecord is interfacing with cobol. After execute I want to be able to read values from the cobol files to see if they match without having to read each record into memory on the java side.

Answer 1

No you are not missing anything, you just create a new thread each time you run something or you have to make a setter method to accept parameters for the next run and then a seperate method to actually make your routine execute.
public void setTask(String s){
  task2Execute = s; //task2Execute is global to the methods
public boolean runTask(){
  CobolTextSearch cobol = new CobolTextSearch();
  cobol1.execute(task2Execute);
//  other logic
}Here is what the docs say about threads: A thread is a thread of execution in a program. The Java Virtual Machine allows an application to have multiple threads of execution running concurrently.