Do not delete. Used in medium blog (Java Multi-Threading) under MDG.

ThreadUsingThreadClass.java

public class ThreadUsingThreadClass{
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		System.out.println("Main thread name: "+ Thread.currentThread().getName());

		Thread t = new Thread(/*Thread name*/"Thread 1");
		t.start();

		// "Thread" constructor with thread_name parameter not "MyThread"
		// MyThread mt = new MyThread("Example_Thread");
		// mt.start();

		MyThread mt = new MyThread();
		mt.start();

		MyThread2 mt2 = new MyThread2("Example_Thread2");
		mt2.start();
	}
}

class MyThread extends Thread{
	public void run(){
		System.out.println("Thread name: "+ Thread.currentThread().getName());
		System.out.println("Thread id: "+ Thread.currentThread().getId());
	}
}

class MyThread2 extends Thread{
	public MyThread2(String thread_name){
		super(thread_name);
	}

	public void run(){
		System.out.println("Thread name: "+ Thread.currentThread().getName());
		System.out.println("Thread id: "+ Thread.currentThread().getId());
	}
}