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On 9/11/2012 1:16 PM, bob smith wrote:

> In particular, I'm subclassing Thread and can't throw an Exception in
> the run method.  I suspect this is a more general issue though.
>


I missed "I'm subclassing Thread" earlier.  Yes, it is a general issue. 
  In general, use an Executor, and separate the work to do (a "task" or 
Runnable/Callable) and the Thread.  They're two different things, 
really, and you shouldn't try to combine them or need to subclass Thread 
at all.

Executors seem complicated when you read the docs but really they're 
very simple to use and provide a lot of capability that would be tough 
to try to do on your own.

<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Executor.html>

Don't over look Executors or ExecutorService mentioned in those docs.