Java Threads

[dalu]

Hi,

I have a user input class that reads the user input values (From UI) and another class that computes some complex calculations using these values. I want the computation class to be independent of the user input class. Can this computation class be implemented as a thread to serve my purpose?? Can anyone help me??

[DarrylBurke]

Assuming that's a Swing GUI (which you didn't tell us), check out this tutorial:
Lesson: Concurrency in Swing (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing)

Particularly the section on SwingWorker.

db

[Solarsonic]

Yes, and Darryl is right with the SwingWorker, but you can just create a regular Thread (read up on threads).

[Fubarable]

Yes, and Darryl is right with the SwingWorker, but you can just create a regular Thread (read up on threads).

But if you do this, then you are responsible for making sure that Swing calls are done on the EDT only. Darryl's link will describe what the EDT is and why it's important. The SwingWorker will automate some of this for you.

[dalu]

Hi,
I read the tutorial and implemented it. Now I am facing another problem.
I have another example where I have three different stages. First stage is a GUI(Swing). When I click a button from the GUI, I perform an action. When I reach a certain point during that action(say action-1), I need to start another action(say action-2). While I need to run only a single instance of action-1 and it is a dependent process, I want to run the multiple instances of action-2 and they are independent processes. I want to create atleast a thousand instances of action-2 at a moment (my main purpose is to give each user a thread of action-2 and I am considering 1000 users. ) Is this possible??

[dalu]

Hi,
Let me add my code snippets here so that it will be more clear to u..

public class getvalues()
{
...
....
...
if(key == name)
userTest utest = new userTest();
new Thread(utest).start();
...
....
....
.....
}


and I have a userTest class implementing runnable interface

class userTest implements Runnable {
public void run() {
System.out.println("Entered Thread ");
....
....
...

}


Here, my requirement is that class "a" should not depend on thread userTest. Even if the userTest is being blocked due to some reason, class a should continue its execution. Here, with respect to my implementation, class a waits until the execution of userTest is finished executing. Can any one help me plz...