Big Java, Binder Ready Version: Early Objects
Big Java, Binder Ready Version: Early Objects
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781119056447
Author: Cay S. Horstmann
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 22.1, Problem 1SC

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Thread:

Thread is a program unit which is executed independently of other parts of the program. Thread is a class in Java.

Java is a multi-threaded programming language. It means that it is having multiple threads and it will run concurrently.

  • In Java Virtual Machine (JVM), many threads are running concurrently.
  • Each thread is having multiple methods, but only one method can be active at a time in each thread because threads are running concurrently and synchronously.

Sleep() method:

The Thread class in Java has a static method called as sleep()...

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