The Quintessential Thread

There are two ways to declare a thread. The first way is to declare a class that extends Thread. Here is an example followed by code used to create and start the thread. 

 class BasicThread1 extends Thread {
   public void run() {
     // This method is called when the thread runs.
   }
 }
 Thread thread = new BasicThread1();
 thread.start();
 
The second way is to have a class implement Runnable. 

This method is typically used when a class makes use of a thread that is not shared with other classes. This example demonstrates the typical way in which such classes declare, create, and start a thread. 
 class BasicThread2 implements Runnable {
   public void run() {
     // This method is called when the thread runs.
   }
   public void aMethod() {
     // Create and start a thread.
     Thread thread = new Thread(this);
     thread.start();
   }
 }