How to set the running time of Thread??

Question

Hello all
i am new and fresh student to learn Java.
i want to set a limit time to run a thread.

Answer 1

public void interrupt()
Interrupts this thread.
First the checkAccess method of this thread is invoked, which may cause a SecurityException to be thrown.
If this thread is blocked in an invocation of the wait(), wait(long), or wait(long, int) methods of the Object class, or of the join(), join(long), join(long, int), sleep(long), or sleep(long, int), methods of this class, then its interrupt status will be cleared and it will receive an InterruptedException.
If this thread is blocked in an I/O operation upon an interruptible channel then the channel will be closed, the thread's interrupt status will be set, and the thread will receive a ClosedByInterruptException.
If this thread is blocked in a Selector then the thread's interrupt status will be set and it will return immediately from the selection operation, possibly with a non-zero value, just as if the selector's wakeup method were invoked.
If none of the previous conditions hold then this thread's interrupt status will be set.
Throws:
SecurityException - if the current thread cannot modify this thread
to quote the api
but in your case Aldaris it would have no effect
but if you wrote the code as..public void run(){
while(!interrupted()){
  System.out.println("Pete_The_Hat");
}then it would break the loop :-)