/* * Copyright (c) 2000 David Flanagan. All rights reserved. * This code is from the book Java Examples in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition. * It is provided AS-IS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY either expressed or implied. * You may study, use, and modify it for any non-commercial purpose. * You may distribute it non-commercially as long as you retain this notice. * For a commercial use license, or to purchase the book (recommended), * visit http://www.davidflanagan.com/javaexamples2. */ package com.davidflanagan.examples.thread; /** * This class demonstrates the use of threads. The main() method is the * initial method invoked by the interpreter. It defines and starts two * more threads and the three threads run at the same time. Note that this * class extends Thread and overrides its run() method. That method provides * the body of one of the threads started by the main() method **/ public class ThreadDemo extends Thread { /** * This method overrides the run() method of Thread. It provides * the body for this thread. **/ public void run() { for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++) compute(); } /** * This main method creates and starts two threads in addition to the * initial thread that the interpreter creates to invoke the main() method. **/ public static void main(String[] args) { // Create the first thread: an instance of this class. Its body is // the run() method above ThreadDemo thread1 = new ThreadDemo(); // Create the second thread by passing a Runnable object to the // Thread() construtor. The body of this thread is the run() method // of the anonymous Runnable object below. Thread thread2 = new Thread(new Runnable() { public void run() { for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++) compute(); } }); // Set the priorities of these two threads, if any are specified if (args.length >= 1) thread1.setPriority(Integer.parseInt(args[0])); if (args.length >= 2) thread2.setPriority(Integer.parseInt(args[1])); // Start the two threads running thread1.start(); thread2.start(); // This main() method is run by the initial thread created by the // Java interpreter. Now that thread does some stuff, too. for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++) compute(); // We could wait for the threads to stop running with these lines // But they aren't necessary here, so we don't bother. // try { // thread1.join(); // thread2.join(); // } catch (InterruptedException e) {} // The Java VM exits only when the main() method returns, and when all // threads stop running (except for daemon threads--see setDaemon()). } // ThreadLocal objects respresent a value accessed with get() and set(). // But they maintain a different value for each thread. This object keeps // track of how many times each thread has called compute(). static ThreadLocal numcalls = new ThreadLocal(); /** This is the dummy method our threads all call */ static synchronized void compute() { // Figure out how many times we've been called by the current thread Integer n = (Integer) numcalls.get(); if (n == null) n = new Integer(1); else n = new Integer(n.intValue() + 1); numcalls.set(n); // Display the name of the thread, and the number of times called System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + ": " + n); // Do a long computation, simulating a "compute-bound" thread for(int i = 0, j=0; i < 1000000; i++) j += i; // Alternatively, we can simulate a thread subject to network or I/O // delays by causing it to sleep for a random amount of time: try { // Stop running for a random number of milliseconds Thread.sleep((int)(Math.random()*100+1)); } catch (InterruptedException e) {} // Each thread politely offers the other threads a chance to run. // This is important so that a compute-bound thread does not "starve" // other threads of equal priority. Thread.yield(); } }