Stoping a thread for timeout

Question

I want to set a timeout in my servlet (Tomcat);
I�ve started a thread, within this a sleep was set;
If my Process comes back i interrupt this thread wird thread.interrupt();
in the catch-block for InterruptedException i make an interrupt again;
now the amazing is, if i call thread.isavailable often it returns true, although the run-method of the Thread was sucessfull finished;
can anyone help pleasee??

Answer 1

Do something like this instead:
// Thread run()
public void run() {
   // do stuff
   synchronized(obj) {
       done = true;
       obj.notify()
done = false;
start();  // Start the thread
syncronized(obj)
    if( !done ) {
        obj.wait( timeout );
}Don't use interrupt. It will leave the thread in an inconsistent state.