Stopping a Thread (where I don't have control of run)

Question

Is there any way to stop a thread whose run method simply calls a method of another class?
For example:
public class myThread extends Thread
  private String className = ...;
  public void run()
    // get className's "main" method and run it

Answer 1

Actually...Smarsh is right. This is the correct way
to stop a thead....stop() is deprecated because it can
cause a deadlock condition. So, in run(), if you
defined a boolean like "bStopThread" run would look
like this:
public void run()  {
if(bStopThread)
return;
// if we drop here...this is the rest of our run
un code
Yeah, I get that's how you should stop a thread...
Let me rephrase the question a little. Say the thread's run method looks similar to this:
public void run()
  if (stopped)
    return;
  someOtherClass.aMethod();
}Once it's in aMethod, I have to let it run until it's done, right? There's no other way to stop a thread other than checking a stop condition?