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run the code that you've juz written????
it doesn't work, i believe there are errors.....
hm..can't quite remember wat errors popped up though

Paul Murray wrote:

> "Qteemoi" <qteemoi@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3A265709.C295849B@alphalink.com.au...
> > haha..i would be, but u see thats the problem, i dun quite understand
> > anything of it to be more specific.....i dun think i can quite grasp the
> > concept...everytime i think of a thread i think of a process....
>
> A thread is like a process that runs within an operating system "process".
> When you run "java.exe", there is one windows process (a java virtual
> machine),  but this JVM may run several java "threads".
>
> A thread, essentally, is a stack context - a current point of execution.
> When any line of code is getting executed, some thread is executing.
>
> So where do the threads come from?
>
> As I understand it ... java.exe is a bit of "C" code. It starts up a Java
> Virtual Machine (which lives in some DLSs or the equivalent), then it tells
> the JVM to kick off a thread that starts at the "main" method of the class
> you passed as a parameter.
>
> Now you can make up threads of your own and kick them off. From your POV as
> a java programmer, these all run simultaneously. To make a thread, do a
>     Thread t = new Thread();
>
> To kick it off, you do a
>     t.start().
>
> Once you do that, the thread will start running. 'Course, you can't simply
> go new Thread(); You either subclasds the thread object, or more commonly
> construct it with an instance of a Runnable
>
> class Counter implements Runnable {
>     final int myNum;
>     Counter(int n) {myNum = n; }
>     public void run() {
>         for(int i = 0; i<100; i++) {
>             System.out.println("I am Counter " + myNum + ", and this is
> iteration " + i);
>         }
>     }
> }
>
> public class foo {
>     public static void main(String[] av) {
>         for(int i = 0; i<10;i++) {
>             Counter c = new Counter(i);
>             Thread t = new Thread(c);
>             t.start();
>         }
>     }
> }
>
> Now if you run this, all 10 threads will run at once and make a jumble on
> system.out. Try it.
>
> Once you've done that, we can diuscuss synchonisation, or you might have
> enough of a start now to work it out on your own. Note that the bahaviour of
> wait() and notify() can be subtle, so yo may need to come back here to talk
> about it.
>
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