How do you kill a Thread in Java?
java, multithreading
Solution
See this thread by Sun on why they deprecated `Thread.stop()`. It goes into detail about why this was a bad method and what should be done to safely stop threads in general.
The way they recommend is to use a shared variable as a flag which asks the background thread to stop. This variable can then be set by a different object requesting the thread terminate.
Problem
How do you kill a `java.lang.Thread` in Java?