Solution to "Invalid thread access" in eRCP

In Embedded Rich Client Platform, i.e. eRCP, an "Invalid thread access" exception is produced when any class that extends ViewPart executes a new thread the conventional way in method

public void createPartControl(Composite parent)

What do I mean by "executes a new thread the conventional way" ? Well here's an example (let's say we have a class or subclass WeatherData which implements Runnable) :

// This will produce an "Invalid thread access" error
Thread thread = new Thread(new WeatherData());

To eliminate the "Invalid thread access" issue, use this instead :

parent.getDisplay().syncExec(new WeatherData());