As mentioned in the introduction of this recipe, there is another way of creating a new execution thread. You can implement a class that extends the Thread class and overrides the run() method of this class. Then, you can create an object of this class and call the start() method to have a new execution thread.

You can use the static method currentThread() of the Thread class to access the thread object that is running the current object.

You have to take into account that the setPriority() method can throw an IllegalArgumentException exception if you try to establish priority that isn't between 1 and 10.