Best way to identify and dispose locked thread in java.
- by Bala R
I have to call a function 3rd party module on a new thread. From what I've seen, the call either completes quickly if everything went well or it just hangs for ever locking up the thread. What's a good way to start the thread and make the call and wait for a few secs and if the thread is still alive, then assuming it's locked up, kill (or stop or abandon) the thread without using any deprecated methods.
I have something like this for now, but I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it and I want to avoid calling Thread.stop() as it's deprecated. Thanks.
private void foo() throws Exception
{
Runnable runnable = new Runnable()
{
@Override
public void run()
{
// stuff that could potentially lock up the thread.
}
};
Thread thread;
thread = new Thread(runnable);
thread.start();
thread.join(3500);
if (thread.isAlive())
{
thread.stop();
throw new Exception();
}
}
