Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 19 99

Foil 7 Thread Construction

From Elements of Concurrent Programming in Java Tango Group Internal Technology Seminars -- Spring 99. by Lukasz Beca
Thread class
  • String identifier, useful for tracking and debugging
  • ThreadGroup class used to enforce security policies
  • setDaemon method indicates that the task should be terminated when all non-daemon threads in the program terminate
Runnable interface, used if the class must subclass some other class (the most common example being Applet)

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