unable to understand that how control transfer in this program .

[gautammuktsar@gmail.com]

public class SRDemo extends Thread { 
	public void run() { 
		try { 
			for( int i = 0; i < 7; i++ ) { 
				Thread.sleep(500); 	
				System.out.println( this.getName() + ": " + i );
			}
		}	
		catch( InterruptedException e ) { 
		e.printStackTrace(); 
		} 
	} 
	public static void main( String args[ ] ) { 
		SRDemo srd1 = new SRDemo(); 
		SRDemo srd2 = new SRDemo(); 
		srd1.setName("First"); 
		srd2.setName("Second");
		srd1.start(); 
		srd2.start(); 
		try { 
			Thread.sleep( 1000 ); 
			srd1.suspend();
			System.out.println("Suspending thread First");
			Thread.sleep( 1000 ); 
			srd1.resume(); 
			System.out.println("Resuming thread First");
 
			Thread.sleep(1000); 
			srd2.suspend(); 
			System.out.println("Suspending thread Second");
			Thread.sleep(1000); 
			srd2.resume();
			System.out.println("Resuming thread Second");
		} 
 
		catch(InterruptedException e) { 
			e.printStackTrace(); 
		} 
	} 
}

I am not understanding about the control ..that how control transfer from one block to another especialy in thread programing
and one more thing please explain me when the try{} block of main() function get excuted..

[GregBrannon]

You have 3 threads running: the main() thread, srd1, and srd2. (There are also other threads running, but you can ignore those for now.) Each of the 3 threads of interest are pretty much off doing their own thing, so I'm not sure what you mean by "control transfer from one block to another." Think of it as 3 tasks, each executing on its own, and see if that helps.

Of course one of the threads has some control over the other two, AND the other two are both doing the same task, but that helps demonstrate how the 3 threads are related while they perform their tasks.

Though your use of deprecated methods simplifies this little demo, don't use suspend() and resume() in a real project.