Stop a thread which held by Remote call

Question

I have start a thread for Remote Call using RMI. I want to stop it when the Remote call doesn't response (timeout function). I have implemented the following
class Test
String str;
Thread thread1;
public void method(){
thread1 = new Thread(){
public void run(){         
while(true){//Simulate the call doesn't response
thread1.start();
Thread thread2 = new Thread(){
public void run(){
try{
sleep(2000);
}catch(InterruptedException e){
System.out.println(e);
System.out.println("Interrupt");
thread1.interrupt();
thread2.start();
try{
thread2.join();
if(thread1.isAlive()){
System.out.println("Alive");
//Stop thread1
}catch(InterruptedException e){
System.out.println(e);
System.out.println("End");
     public static void main(String[] args){
          Test t = new Test();
t.method();
Would any one please tell me how to stop the thread1?
Thank you.

Answer 1

There is a deprecated method for stopping a thread, called, unsurprisingly, Thread.stop(). It's deprecated for good reason.
I suspect your program would have worked if a real remote method call had been involved. The interrupt() method could perhaps have been better named. It doesn't cause a interrupt in the classical sense. For the most part, it just sets a flag that can be tested using the Thread.interrupted() method. However, certain blocking operations do get terminated prematurely and in that case an interrupt is thrown. See for example InputStream.read() which can throw IOException, or which InterruptedIOException is a subclass. I rather think that interrupting an RMI call would result in a RemoteException being thrown.
Sylvia.