Stopping a Thread Correctly

Question

Instead of using myThread.stop()
I should do somthing like this ... correct?
//In my Thread Dispatcher Class
private boolean shouldStop = false;
private Thread myThread;
public static void setStopThread(boolean b){
shouldStop = b;
public boolean stopThread(){
  return shouldStop;
public void nullifyThread(){
myThread = null;
//In my Thread Class
public void run(){
while(!myThreadDispatcherInstance.stopThread()){
  //do some Thread Work
}//end while
}//end run method
myThreadDispatcherInstance.nullifyThread();Will the above code handle everything (aside for the setup and initialization part) to override the depreciation of the Thread.stop() method? Or am I missing somthing?
oh yea also anywhere I'd need to stop the thread i'd put
ThreadDispatcherClass.setStopThread(true);

Answer 1

Looks about right, except that you need to declare setStopThead and stopThread synchronized, in order to force writing to and reading from main memory.
NullifyThread is almost certainly pointless and unneeded.
stopThread is a rather poor name. It sounds like it's taking an action, rather than returning a value. shouldStop() or idDone() or something would be better.
Finally regarding "In my Thread class": Rather than extending Thread, you should implement Runnable. You're not really specializing a Thread's behavior, you're just implementing a unit of work for a thread to run.