So, say you have started an asynchronous task running in a Java Enterprise (JEE) container. This is often done using the interface
MessageListener and its method
onMessage(Message) along with Topics. In brief, jobs are announced on a
Topic (that is a list of jobs) where one or more listeners subscribe and check and every time a new job arrives they do some work. A Topic is like a TODO list while a MessageListener offers a thread while will undertake the announced job. However, while some thread executes such a job, we may decide that we want to stop the execution. In this article we will explain how such a thread can be interrupted.
