/** Taken from Core Web Programming from 
 *  Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press,
 *  http://www.corewebprogramming.com/.
 *  © 2001 Marty Hall and Larry Brown;
 *  may be freely used or adapted.
 */

public class ThreadedClass extends AnyClass implements Runnable {
  public void run() {
    // Thread behavior here.
  }

  public void startThread() {
    Thread t = new Thread(this);
    t.start(); // Calls back to the run method in "this."
  }

  ...
}