Thread Class Methods

Question 1

Returns reference to the current thread.

Answer 1

Thread.currentThread()

Question 2

Returns the name of the current thread.

Answer 2

String getName()

Question 3

Returns the priority value of the current thread.

Answer 3

int getPriority()

Question 4

The current thread invoking this method on another thread waits until the other thread dies. Overloaded to be able to give the timeout in milliseconds or milliseconds and nanoseconds.

Answer 4

void join()

Question 5

Once you start a thread using the start() method, this method will be called when the thread is ready to execute.

Answer 5

void run()

Question 6

Changes the name of the thread to the given name in the argument.

Answer 6

void setName(String name)

Question 7

Sets the priority of the thread to the given argument value.

Answer 7

void setPriority(int priorityValue)

Question 8

Makes the current thread sleep for given milliseconds or milliseconds and nanoseconds.

Answer 8

Thread.sleep(long milliseconds, int nanoseconds)

Question 9

Starts the thread; JVM calls the run() method of the thread.

Answer 9

void start()

Question 10

Overridden method of Object that returns the string representation of the thread. Has the threads name, priority, and group.

Answer 10

String toString()