The Life of a Thread

• 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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