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Originally Posted by Norm

If the thread isn't calling a method that is interruptable when the interrupt is sent, then catch block will never be called.The thread will have to test to see if it has been interrupted and then handle that in normal code, not in a catch block.

One more point, the test must be in normal code, but the cleanup can still be in a catch block. Simply throw an InterruptedException when interrupted() returns true.