How to start anonymous thread class

Question

I have the following code snippet:

public class A {     public static void main(String[] arg) {         new Thread() {             public void run() {                 System.out.println("blah");             }         };     } } 

Here, how do I call the start() method for the thread without creating an instance of the thread class?

Answer 1

You're already creating an instance of the Thread class - you're just not doing anything with it. You could call start() without even using a local variable:

new Thread() {     public void run() {         System.out.println("blah");     } }.start(); 

... but personally I'd normally assign it to a local variable, do anything else you want (e.g. setting the name etc) and then start it:

Thread t = new Thread() {     public void run() {         System.out.println("blah");     } }; t.start();