Public Method stop

final void stop()

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Forces this thread to stop executing. Stopping a thread causes it to unlock all the monitors that it has locked. Note that any objects protected by these monitors can now be viewed by other threads.

It is recommended to replace uses of stop by code that uses a flag variable to indicate that the target thread should stop running. The target thread should check this variable regularly, and return from its run method in an orderly fashion.