[Solved] Is there a way to obtain an instance of a running thread?

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

I have an anonymous Thread object:


new Thread(new Runnable() {
	@Override
	public void run() {
		try {
			Thread.sleep(2000);
		}
		catch (InterruptedException e) {
		}
	}
}).start();

This anonymous thread is inside a loop, and will run when the conditions are met in the loop.

I wanted to know if I can obtain an instance of the running anonymous Thread object without creating a class member of type Thread and make it reference to the anonymous Thread object, so that the application won’t start the Thread object too many times in the loop.

I was thinking of using [icode]Thread.currentThread()[/icode] static method to get the instance, but the more I think of it, the more difficult it is to come up with a solution. Hm…