threads

[crazed8s]

i know how to make a thread with extends thread and all blah blah blah, but i was just trying different things and i could never get the .wait() and .sleep() functions to work. so i tried to figure it out and it was something about synchronizing?!? and all the examples i found were pretty ehh, so i was wondering if a real person could put it into words for me because books and websites tend to overexplain and make things more confusing. Or if someone has a real good source for learning about threading that would be great

[copeg]

For what its worth, its better practice to implement Runnable as opposed to extending Thread.

Thread.sleep is static, so you typically call it in a static way to pause the current thread for a period of time.

try{
    Thread.sleep(1000);//sleeps the current thread for 1 second.
}catch(Exception e){
 
}

wait() is called on an object, which results in the current thread to wait, either specified by a millisecond parameter, or indefinitely. To wake up said thread, another thread can call notify() on the particular object it wishes to wake up (the one wait was called on).

	public static class Test1 implements Runnable{
	    private Test2 test2;
	     public Test1(){
	         test2 = new Test2();
	        (new Thread(test2)).start();
	        (new Thread(this)).start();
	     }
	    public void run(){
	        try{
	                Thread.sleep(2000);
	                 synchronized(test2){
	                        test2.notify();
	                }
	        }catch(Exception e){
	        }
	    }
	}
 
	public static class Test2 implements Runnable{
	     public void run(){
	        System.out.println("In Test2");
	        try{
	        	synchronized(this){
	        		this.wait();
	        	}
	        }catch(Exception e){
	        	e.printStackTrace();
	        }
	        System.out.println("Awake");
	    }
	}
	public static void main(String[] args){
		new Test1();
	}

See Concurrency for detailed expainations.

[JavaPF]

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