Killing an anonymous Thread

Question

Hi,
The question is: How can we kill a Thread that we don't have any reference to it.
I have a "closed" jar which launches two threads that don't die after the function execution. I cannot kill the JVM by invoking System.exit[0].
Is there any possibility to access the Threads that are running in memory and kill them? If so how?

Answer 1

Hi ChuckBing,
Thanks for replying. Well, actually I think you missunderstood the problem. Let me give you an exemple:
public class Test {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          (new DontKillThisAnonymousThread()).start();
          (new KillMeThreadLauncherThread()).start();
class DontKillThisAnonymousThread extends Thread{
     public void run(){
          try{
               while(true){
                    System.out.println("I want to live forever...");
                    //From this single line of execution
                    //how can I find another thread (an anonymous one) and kill it.
                    sleep(1000);
          }catch(InterruptedException e){
               e.printStackTrace();
class KillMeThreadLauncherThread extends Thread{
     public void run(){
          (new KILL_ME_AnonymousThread()).start();
class KILL_ME_AnonymousThread extends Thread{
     public void run(){
          try{
               while(true){
                    System.out.println("Are you able to kill me without killing the JVM...");
                    sleep(1000);
          }catch(InterruptedException e){
               e.printStackTrace();
}Thanks