Help needed in threads

Question

hi,
Iam using the stop() from the API.But since it is deprecated I dont want to use it.Is there any way by which I could replace it ?I need to make changes in thousands of files.
Any sample code for avoiding stop() wud be of immense help.

Answer 1

Slightly at a tangent, but why
while (true) {
synchronized (mutex) {
if (running) {         
//execute some task
mutex.wait(500);
} else {
break; //will break from while(true) loop
}instead of
while (running) {
//execute some task
synchronized(mutex);
mutex.wait(500);
Often VM's interpretation of what volatile means can differ from each other and it is my experience that in the past various VMs have been buggy with volatile variables. Hence to be doubly sure I want to ensure that access to the "running" variable is synchronized.
synchronized (mutex) {
  while (running) {
    //execute some task
    mutex.wait(500);
}is equivalent to my code above of course and I could (should) have used this. The reason is that I did a cut-and-paste job with some hasty alterations where for various reasons I wanted to re-do a check before waiting and also cede the mutex inbetween executing the task and waiting. Apologies for any confusion.
The reason I ask is that I've never found a use for
"break".I'm not mad-keen on it either as it isn't very good practice IMHO but it was quite useful where I have used it.