Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

Section 23.2 Thread States and Life Cycle

• A new thread begins its life cycle in the new state (p. 961). When the program starts the thread, it’s placed in the runnable state. A thread in the runnable state is considered to be executing its task.

• A runnable thread transitions to the waiting state (p. 961) to wait for another thread to perform a task. A waiting thread transitions to runnable when another thread notifies it to continue executing.

• A runnable thread can enter the timed waiting state (p. 961) for a specified interval of time, transitioning back to runnable when that time interval expires or when the event it’s waiting for occurs.

• A runnable thread can transition to the timed waiting state if it provides an optional wait interval ...