How to kill a JBoss thread which is stuck reading from a socket

Issue

• Using the jmx-console I can see a thread that appears to be hung up for some reason.

    java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
    java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129)
    java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:218)
    java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(BufferedInputStream.java:258)
    java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:317)
    sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(HttpClient.java:687)
    sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:632)
    sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1064)
    java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:373)
    ...

If this thread was just stuck there is there a way to kill it?

• How can I stop hung http threads ?
  Due to a bug in Struts we are having problems with threads that go into an infinite loop. We have tracked down that the affected thread types are threads with names like "http-0.0.0.0-8080-XX". The long term solution is to upgrade Struts, but in the mean time we are trying to figure out a work around. Do you have any ideas how we could kill/restart the threads without bringing down the whole JBoss instance? We have found the HttpRequest instance in the jmx-console that currently are using the thread, but no good MBean options to use.