OK!

Sample code follows.  I *just* started, this is like my second program
after hello world.  I'm trying to write a command line utility that
starts, and then every once in awhile does "something", so I'm using a
thread.  In the code sample below as is, the program starts, prints it's
intial message, and then stops.  I figured that the main program was
terminating and it's new thread with it.  So I added the line:

while (true) {}

in place of the comment "// iloop here"(*) to intentionally create an
infinite loop, so  that the program would only terminate with a CTRL-C
or similar.  This worked as far as the program not terminating, but I
still never see anything from the new thread.  Thanks for any advice you
can give to the newb.

package nwserverlogmonitor1;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("nwServerLogMonitor Started");
        Thread t = new Thread();
        t.start();

        // iloop here
    }

public void run() {
    try {
        while (true) {
            System.out.println("I did something");
            Thread.sleep(5000);
        }
    }
    catch (InterruptedException ie) {}
    }
}

(*) how clever, a double entendre.  "iloop": "I Loop"  or "infinte
loop".  Either, both?  A mystery for the ages to all but the author