Thread: how to stop it?

Question

I'm new with thread and I don't understand some things about that.
For example: when I create a Class that extends Thread class I must override the method run(), right? After when I call the method start() from the Class the thread runs in a never-ending cycle? How can I stop it?
The example code:
public class MyClass extends Thread {
    private int value;
    public MyClass() {
        value = 0;
    public void run() {
        value++;
}Does the class continue to do the addition until it will throw an exception (when the max value of int type is reached)?
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Lukyan

Answer 1

Try to run it and see, no?Quoting myself ... I did not mean to be facetious. I really thought that actually running the code would be the clearest way of "seeing" the results. Better answers both before and after mine have provoked me to add the following:
It is very common to code the actual guts of your "Thread" similar to this:
private boolean run = true;
public void run() {
  try {
    while (run) {
      doMethodA();
      doMethodB();
  } catch(InterruptedException ie) {
    doMethodC(); // or print the stack trace or something
private void doMethodA() {
private void doMethodB() {
  if ( "bad".equals(condition) )
    run = false;
}