Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5

Creating threads

Threads are objects in the Java language. They can be created using the following mechanisms:

• Create a class that implements the Runnable interface
• Create a class that extends the Thread class

There are two ways to create a Runnable object. The first way is to create a class that implements the Runnable interface as follows:

public class ThreadExample {  public static void main(String[] args) {    Thread t = new Thread(new MyThread());    t.start();  }}class MyThread implements Runnable {  private static final Logger LOGGER =       Logger.getLogger(MyThread.class);  public void run() {    //perform some task    LOGGER.info("Hello from thread...");  }}

Before Java 8, we only had this way to create a Runnable object. But since Java 8, we can create ...