Sleep in thread

[jithan]

hello friends,

i have to sleep a particular thread...... how to do that? i have given below in my pgm...... if i sleep my particular thread all the threads has slept...... what i have to do for sleep a particular thread .......


class RowlevelLocking extends Thread implements Runnable
{
Thread x,y;
RowlevelLocking()
{
x = new Thread(this,"a");
y = new Thread(this,"b");
x.start();
y.start();
}
public static void main(String arg[])
{
new RowlevelLocking();
}

public void run()
{
while(true)
{
display();
}
}
private void display()
{
System.out.println("welcome.......");
x.sleep(1000);
}

}
here if i sleep the x thread the y thread also sleep............... what i have to do a sleep a separate thread.............

[Norm]

Before calling sleep, test a variable to see if its the thread that is supposed to be sleeping. Thread has methods to get the currentThread.
YOu could pass something in the constructor to say if the thread is to sleep or not. For example if thread name = "a" then sleep.