Hi Gregg, Does it make sense to move to concurrency utilities and move away from TaskManager altogether?
Dennis On Jun 4, 2010, at 1100AM, Gregg Wonderly wrote: > The TaskManager class has a subclass of Thread that it uses to run tasks. > The problem with subclassing Thread, is that there is a lock that is used in > Thread to see if some methods are overridden so that security can be > maintained. So, in an environment where Thread is used with a > SecurityManager, it is better to use a Runnable to encapsulate the custom > code, instead of a Thread. > > The TaskThread class should be a Runnable instead of a Thread, and then there > are just 3 other places where it is referenced that need some adjustment. > The thread that is running inside of the runnable needs to be put into a per > instance variable for one place where interrupt processing is handled. > > Gregg Wonderly
