Re: How to distinguish between two running threads

From:

"henry" <barth.heiko@googlemail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

30 Nov 2006 09:04:07 -0800

Message-ID:

<1164906247.281424.55810@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

I think, this is the best solution. But you could do something like
that to just to simply distinguish between Threads, too ...

public class ThreadTest implements Runnable{
    Thread t1;
    Thread t2;

    void go(){
        t1 = new Thread(this);
        t2 = new Thread(this);
        t1.start();
        t2.start();
    }

    public void run() {
        if(Thread.currentThread()==t1){
            // ...
        }else{
            //...
        }
    }
}

But as I said before,I think Wesley`s way is the better one
wesley.hall@gmail.com schrieb:

Angus wrote:

Hello

I have an applet and I want to create two threads - one to handle inbound
network io and the other outbound.

So I do this:
public class MyExample extends Applet implements ActionListener,
ItemListener, Runnable

     Thread nwioIn; // Inbound network handler thread
     Thread nwioOut; // Outbound network handler thread

and this:

     nwioIn = new Thread(this);
     nwioIn.start();
     mwioOut = new Thread(this);
     nwioOut.start();

Then I have a Run function

But I can have only one Run function? So in my Run function I kick off a
Inbound network io thread and then a outbound network io thread. do I just
use eg a static bool eg first and if first = true then do In then when false
do outbound? Would that work?

Angus

Hi Angus,

Here is what you should do...

public class IOThingy
{
     public static void main(String[] args)
     {
         new Thread(new OutputHandler()).start();
         new Thread(new InputHandler()).start();
     }

     private class OutputHandler implements Runnable
     {
            public void run()
            {
                  //Do output work
            }
     }

     private class InputHandler implements Runnable
     {
            public void run()
            {
                  //Do input work
            }
     }
}

Using inner classes like this allows you to have two different run
method implementations. You will need to adapt this example for your
applet.