Time to put a stop to Thread.stop?

[Martin Buchholz]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Jeroen Frijters <jeroen at sumatra.nl> wrote:

> IMO Thread.currentThread().stop(new Throwable()) should continue to work.
> It is not unsafe and it is probably used in a lot of code to workaround the
> madness that is checked exceptions.
>
>
There are existing JDK tests that use currentThread().stop to implement the
occasionally necessary sneakyThrow.

I suspect there are important uses of unsafe otherThread.stop in the real
world, where it is used as a last resort to shut down an "application"
running within a java vm, and works reasonably well in practice.