Quote Originally Posted by mendhak
For #1, it depends. If you have a loop in your thread which runs many times, you could perform a check for a session variable at the start of each loop, and if it has a value of say "false" or "stop", then you exit the method.
That's ok I don't want to stop the thread just wanted to make sure that the user couldn't screw it up in anyway (apart from physically attacking the server etc).