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Foil 7 The Life of a Thread

From Java Tutorial 98- 4: Multi-Treading, Useful Java Classes, I/O and Networking NAVO Tutorial -- Sept 23 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
A thread is always in one of the five states shown in this diagram, which includes the most common methods for changing state:
Blocked
Newborn
Dead
Runnable
Running
sleep( )
suspend( )
wait( )
block on IO
resume( )
notify( )
IO complete
start( )
stop( )
stop( )*
stop( )
yield( )

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