Thread Properties
In the following sections, we discuss miscellaneous properties of threads: thread priorities, daemon threads, thread groups, and handlers for uncaught exceptions.
Thread Priorities
In the Java programming language, every thread has a priority. By default, a thread inherits the priority of its parent thread, that is, the thread that started it. You can increase or decrease the priority of any thread with the setPriority method. You can set the priority to any value between MIN_PRIORITY (defined as 1 in the Thread class) and MAX_PRIORITY (defined as 10). NORM_PRIORITY is defined as 5.
Whenever the thread-scheduler has a chance to pick a new thread, it prefers threads with higher priority. However, thread priorities are highly ...
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