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Foil 13 Thread Control Methods

From Elements of Concurrent Programming in Java Tango Group Internal Technology Seminars -- Spring 99. by Lukasz Beca
start calls run method as an independent activity
stop irrevocably terminates a thread
isAlive returns true if thread started but not terminated
suspend temporarily halts a thread
resume makes thread to continue if it was suspended
sleep suspends for a given time
join suspends caller till the target thread completes
interrupt causes a sleep, wait, or join to abort with InterruptedException

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