Interactive Object-Oriented Programming in Java: Learn and Test Your Programming Skills

© Vaskaran Sarcar 2020

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11. Thread Programming

Vaskaran Sarcar¹ 

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India

 

The Java programs that you have seen so far have had a single sequential flow of control; in other words, once the program starts executing, it goes through all statements sequentially until the end. So, in a particular moment, there is only one statement under execution.

A thread is similar to a program. It has a single flow of control. It also has a body between the starting point and end point, and it executes the commands sequentially. Each program has at least one thread.

Java supports the concept of multi-threading; that is, in Java you can have multiple ...