In this tutorial, we will learn about Thread class methods. In the last tutorial, we already saw two thread class methods run() and start() method. There are a lot of other methods in Thread class. Check this following list.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| public void start() | This method is used to start the execution of the thread. |
| public void run() | This method is used to describe the action in the thread. |
| public final void setName(String name) | This method is used to set the name of the thread. |
| public final void setPriority(int priority) | This method is used to set the priority of the thread. |
| public final void join(long milliseconds) | This method is used to block the current thread for specified milliseconds until another thread completes its execution or specified milliseconds passed |
| public void interrupt() | This method is used to interrupt a thread. |
| public void stop() | This method is used to stop a thread. |
| public void suspend() | This method is used to suspend a thread. |
| public void resume() | This method is used to resume the suspended thread. |
| public final boolean isAlive() | This method is used to check whether a thread is alive or not. |
| public static void yield() | This method is used to block currently running thread and allow other threads with the same property to run temporarily. |
| public static void sleep(long milliseconds) | This is used to block a thread for specific milliseconds. |
| public static boolean holdsLock(Object x) | This method will return true if the current thread holds the lock on the given Object. |
| public static Thread currentThread() | This method returns the reference of currently running thread. |
| public static void dumpStack() | This method prints the stack trace of currently running thread. |
| public void destroy() | This method is used to destroy the thread group. |
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