java.lang.Thread. Sometimes, however, you want to add threading to a class that already inherits from a class other than Thread. The most common such occurrence is when you want to add threading to an applet. The easiest way to improve the perceived performance of an applet is to implement the java.lang.Runnable interface.
The Runnable interface declares
just one method, run().
public void run()
Thread and declare that it implements the Runnable interface like this:
public class MyThreadedClass extends SomeClass implements Runnable {
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public void run() {
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}
}
Thread and pass the Runnable object to the Thread constructor. Then call the Thread's start() method like this:
MyThreadedClass mtc = new MyThreadedClass();
Thread t = new Thread(mtc);
t.start();