Running code on the main thread from a secondary thread?

There is no universal way to just send some code to another running thread and say “Hey, you, do this.” You would need to put the main thread into a state where it has a mechanism for receiving work and is waiting for work to do.

Here’s a simple example of setting up the main thread to wait to receive work from other threads and run it as it arrives. Obviously you would want to add a way to actually end the program and so forth…!

public static final BlockingQueue<Runnable> queue = new LinkedBlockingQueue<Runnable>();

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    new Thread(new Runnable(){
        @Override
        public void run() {
            final int result;
            result = 2+3;
            queue.add(new Runnable(){
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    System.out.println(result);
                }
            });
        }
    }).start();

    while(true) {
        queue.take().run();
    }
}