Renaming Threads in Java

Question

I am working on a project that is slowly getting larger and larger and the number of active threads used by many different processes is increasing. Lately, I have been taking a closer look at the running threads in the debugger and I have noticed that a lot of my third party libraries have given very poor names to their threads - Timer-0, qtp0, etc. I want other devs unfamiliar with the poorly named threads to know instantly what is running.

Rather than write patches for the libs we are using, does anyone know how to rename the running threads? Or if this is even a good idea? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Change Java Thread Name

Thread.currentThread().setName("MyThread");