Replacement for Thread.stop( ) in JDk 1.4

Question

Hi all,
Please suggest an alternate solution to this issue.
1. Thread problem :
We cannot use System.exit(0) because control goes out of the calling program also.
We cannot use destroy() because after the Thread.currentThread().destroy(), the program doesnot know how to handle it and it throws up an exception.
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError
at java.lang.Thread.destroy(Unknown Source) // also thread.destroy is deprecated
The other solution that I explored is the use of interrupt(). However, if I try Thread.currentThread.isAlive() , then it returns me TRUE - meaning , that the thread was not killed or stopped. Because of this, the applet does not exit.
Remaining options:
Setting the thread to null. Explore more on how to use set the Thread.currentThread to null?
Applet {
init{
new Thread(){
public void run(){
}.start();
exit(){
Thread.currentThread().stop();
the focus here has to be what needs to be done to the Thread.currentThread().stop()?
In case, we cannot find a solution, can we rewrite the applet without Thread.stop() to do the same? Will it exit then? Can you try it?
Please reply with your suggestions at the earliest.
Regards
Abhijeet

Answer 1

put some while loop in your run() method as follows
public void run()
while(flag)
//do something
here flag is a boolean variable. Then to stop the running thread, set flag to false from some other thread.