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hi to all,iam new to java threads, iknow sleep() method causes current thread to pause execution for specific time,but when we call sleep() method on current thread will it cause the other threads to start their process that are waiting.One more question what exactly join() method do .Ialready read the sun java tutorials ,but i am in little bit confusion.please help me.
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hi,
You already know about sleep() method. This method doesn't invoke any other thread, this only causes the thread to wait for the time you have pass as arguments. In join() method the main thread wait for the thread to finish its task and then destroy that thread for which join() method is called.
If you make one thread sleep, then yes, this generally gives other threads "more opportunity" to run. So indirectly, yes, sleeping one thread makes other threads run. However:
- you have little control over which threads will run instead when you put a given thread to sleep;
- sleep or no sleep, other threads will still get a share of the CPU.
You certainly shouldn't see sleep() as a means of controlling other threads-- that's really not what it's for.
join() makes the current thread waits for the given thread's run() method to finish. But calling join() doesn't actually do anything to that other thread (it certainly doesn't destroy it-- that's something that just "happens naturally" some time after that thread's run() method finishes).
If you do need to make one thread control another, look at CountDownLatch, possibly the wait/notify mechanism (though it's a little deprecated nowadays), and other classes in the java.util.concurrent package (which have generally replaced wait/notify).