java给线程命名,重命名Java中的线程

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.

解决方案

If the problem is in open source libraries, then the best solution is to supply patches to those products for better thread naming. Barring a security manager running, you can rename any thread by enumerating threads (as others have mentioned) and applying an arbitrary name to each, but this is a fragile way of naming threads that are not your own. If the 3rd party library changes their naming, you'll have to change your code.

I agree that 3rd party libraries with poorly-named threads make more difficult understanding what is going on in your application. But renaming threads from a 3rd party library is risky. What happens if their next release changes the way they name threads? And how do you handle a 3rd party library that makes no attempt at all to name threads?

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