Start from beginning in a Thread

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Hello!
I have some problem of starting a Thread again when I have stoped it. The thing I want is that I want to start a Thread, then stop it and after that start the Thread from begining, and I can not use resume/suspend because the Thread should need to begin just after run. For example
Class hello extends Thread
     run()
          // do something....
     main
          hello h=new hello();
          while(1>0)
          if(.....)
          h.start();
          if(.......)
          h.stop()
Because of the while these if can happen many times and h will be stopped and started many times. But after I have stoped it once then when I try to start it, it wont start.
I have solved this problem by making new Threads like h, h1, h2..... all the time but is there a way to do this with only one name of the Thread. And that when it is started then it should start from the beginning of the run.
Regards
Tomas

Answer 1

Don't use stop():
It was deprecated.
"This method is inherently unsafe. Stopping a thread with Thread.stop causes it to unlock all of the monitors that it has locked (as a natural consequence of the unchecked ThreadDeath exception propagating up the stack). If any of the objects previously protected by these monitors were in an inconsistent state, the damaged objects become visible to other threads, potentially resulting in arbitrary behavior. Many uses of stop should be replaced by code that simply modifies some variable to indicate that the target thread should stop running. The target thread should check this variable regularly, and return from its run method in an orderly fashion if the variable indicates that it is to stop running. If the target thread waits for long periods (on a condition variable, for example), the interrupt method should be used to interrupt the wait."
You can use wait() and notifyAll() inside synchronized block.