Implementing the Runnable interface

The second way to create a thread is to use a class that implements java.lang.Runnable. Here is an example of such a class that has almost exactly the same functionality as the MyThread class:

class MyRunnable implements Runnable {

    private String parameter, name;

    public MyRunnable(String name) {

        this.name = name;

    }

    public void run() {

        while(!"exit".equals(parameter)){

            System.out.println("thread " + this.name + 

                              ", parameter: " + parameter);

  ...