How does one implement a truly asynchronous java thread
- by Ritesh M Nayak
I have a function that needs to perfom two operations, one which finishes fast and one which takes a long time to run. I want to be able to delegate the long running operation to a thread and I dont care when the thread finishes, but the threads needs to complete. I implemented this as shown below , but, my secondoperation never gets done as the function exits after the start() call. How I can ensure that the function returns but the second operation thread finishes its execution as well and is not dependent on the parent thread ?
public void someFunction(String data)
{
smallOperation()
Blah a = new Blah();
Thread th = new Thread(a);
th.Start();
}
class SecondOperation implements Runnable
{
public void run(){
// doSomething long running
}
}
