public class MyObjHandler implements Runnable {

  private final BlockingQueue<MyObj> queue;

  public class MyObjHandler(BlockingQueue queue) {
    this.queue = queue;
  }

  public void run() {
    try {
      while (true) {
        MyObj obj = queue.take();
        // process obj here
        // ...
      }
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
      Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
    }
  }
}

public void testHandler() {

  BlockingQueue<MyObj> queue = new ArrayBlockingQueue<MyObj>(100);

  MyObjectHandler  handler = new MyObjectHandler(queue);
  new Thread(handler).start();

  // get objects for handler to process
  for (Iterator<MyObj> i = getMyObjIterator(); i.hasNext(); ) {
    queue.put(i.next());
  }

  // what code should go here to tell the handler
  // to stop waiting for more objects?
}

BlockingQueue<MyObj> queue = new ArrayBlockingQueue<MyObj>(100);
MyObjectHandler handler = new MyObjectHandler(queue);
Thread thread = new Thread(handler);
thread.start();
for (Iterator<MyObj> i = getMyObjIterator(); i.hasNext(); ) {
  queue.put(i.next());
}
thread.interrupt();

thread.interrupt()