How to stop a daemon Java Thread?

If I have a thread set as daemon and the main program has already exited, how do I locate the thread to stop it?
Thanks.

> As for stopping it you use a socket and send it a message. That of course would require another thread because it is a listener.
Could you explain me a little bit more this (or send a link)? That is probably what I want to do. I want to open another instance of the program and stop the running thread. (By the way I'm doing this on Windows).
Daemon thread != unix daemon.
I'm not actually setting the thread as deamon because I want it as a background task, but because I want the main program to exit after it has started the thread and I want the thread to keep running. I read somewhere that I could do this setting the thread as daemon. But I misunderstood what I read.
Again, what I want to know if there's a way of running an app that when you press a start button, for example starts a thread that performs some ops. and exits, but the thread is still running, and if you re-open the app and press the stop button it stops the running thread, that is, the instance of the app that created the thread is not the one who's going to stop it.
I don't necesarily want to do it using threads but that was the way I first thought of.
Thank you for your reply :)
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