[pravipravi]

Hi,
I am having multiple threads in my application. I want to stop one thread when next thread is starting.

private void stopDataDownloadThread(Thread dataDownloadThread )
    {
    	if(dataDownloadThread != null && dataDownloadThread.isAlive())
        {
            dataDownloadThread.interrupt();
            
            while(dataDownloadThread.isAlive())
            {
                try
                {
					Thread.sleep(100);
                }
                catch(Exception ex)
                {
                	UtilityClass.printDebugString("DEBUG:Exception occured while stopping the previous thread." + ex);
                }
            }
        }
        dataDownloadThread = null;
    }

this is the way i am trying to stop the thread in execution. But it is not destroying the thread. Is there any other way ? In Java there is option to destroy, but in blackberry ? anyone ?

[vivartpandey]

try this

private void stopDataDownloadThread(Thread dataDownloadThread )
{
boolean quite = false;
if(dataDownloadThread != null && dataDownloadThread.isAlive())
{
dataDownloadThread.interrupt();

while(!quite)
{
try
{
Thread.sleep(100);
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
UtilityClass.printDebugString("DEBUG:Exception occured while stopping the previous thread." + ex);
}
}
}
quite = true;
}

[pravipravi]

Hi , thanks for your reply,
But this one also not worked for me. When i am invoking a thread second time i am geting IllegalThreadStateException.Which means the thread is still alive and , again i am trying to start it. I want to destroy the thread and start again. Any helps ?

[Dougsg38p]

I think the correct steps are:

1. Set a variable that is queried by the thread run() loop (like isDone). The run() loop should always exit when this value is set.

2. call thread.interrupt() to break the thread from any current sleep()

3. call thread.join() to wait for the thread to die.

You can also use thread.isActive() to check and see if the thread is really dead.

Now, having said all of that, I never re-use a thread. I kill the old one, set the reference to null (so that it can be garbage collected), and start a new thread.