title: Stopping a specific java thread
body: <p>I have a button "addCashier" which is creating a thread called "Cashier" now this thread is just simply generating orders every 4 seconds, a while(true) loop in the run() method of the thread. All is good there, but now I want to add a button to simulate cashiers logging off. I added a boolean variable to my while loop onDuty and a public function logOff() which sets this onDuty bool to false to get me out of the run's while loop. My problem now is from my gui class how can I call a function on a specific thread? Each cashier thread has been generated at runtime so I don't know their names.</p>
  
  <p>I hope I made sense. Thanks in advance.</p>