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posted 3/24/2000 9:51 AM

Nilesh Parikh Ranch Hand Joined: Mar 14, 2000 Posts: 52

hi all, Does the thread stop running when the program exits the main() method? I think the answer is YES. The code that is attched to the run() method of the thread is the main()method, and it will stop as soon as it finishes it's work Am I right? Alkesh

maha anna Ranch Hand Joined: Jan 31, 2000 Posts: 1467

posted 3/24/2000 1:45 PM

Alkesh, The user threads which are started by the main thread keep on continuing their work even if the main thread ends before them. The JVM exits when there is only daemon threads running, and all other threads finished their work. Here is an example and the output. Don't give more importance to the exact sequence of the output. It varies. But the point to understand here is even if the main thread had finished its work very first, t1,t2 user threads keep running and after all threads done their work, JVM exits. I hope this is what you asked for. regds maha anna
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<pre> class TestThread extends Thread { public void run() { for(int i=0; i<5; i++) { try { Thread.sleep(1000); }catch(Exception e) {} System.out.println(this.getName() + " i="+i); } System.out.println(this.getName() +" ends now"); } } class test { public static void main(String[] args) { TestThread t1 = new TestThread(); TestThread t2 = new TestThread(); t1.start(); t2.start(); System.out.println("main() ends now"); } } output -----main() ends now Thread-0 i=0 Thread-1 i=0 Thread-0 i=1 Thread-1 i=1 Thread-1 i=2 Thread-0 i=2 Thread-0 i=3 Thread-1 i=3 Thread-1 i=4 Thread-1 ends now Thread-0 i=4 Thread-0 ends now </pre> [This message has been edited by maha anna (edited March 24, 2000).]

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