Re: threads

From:

Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:56:03 -0400

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blah bah7 wrote:

how do you make threads?

Joshua Cranmer wrote:

What do you mean by `make threads'? Spawn threads that don't do
anything? Hold preinitialized threads ready to run?

Given that your last question on this newsgroup involves rather basic UI
questions, I am forewarning you that you might not be ready for
multithreading. Multithreading is a very complex topic, one that
neophytes are liable to make plenty of mistakes in and have trouble
pinning down the sources of problems.

If you are totally sure that you want to start venturing into
multithreading,
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.html> is a
starting point.

Also
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/concurrency/index.html>
and from there, GIYF.

If you're buying books, Doug Lea and Brian Goetz (along with Joshua Bloch and
a few others) are the masters.

Try reading tutorials and googling before asking such wide-ranging questions.
It's sort of like saying, "I want to be a doctor. How do you perform surgery?"

Work through the Sun tutorials fully. They aren't perfect, but they're
awfully useful.

--
Lew