There are two ways to create a new thread of execution.
One is to declare a class to be a subclass of Thread
. This subclass should override the run
method of class Thread
. An instance of the subclass can then be allocated and started.
class PrimeThread extends Thread {
long minPrime;
PrimeThread(long minPrime) {
this.minPrime = minPrime;
}
public void run() {
// compute primes larger than minPrime
. . .
}
}
The following code would then create a thread and start it running:
PrimeThread p = new PrimeThread(143); p.start();
The other way to create a thread is to declare a class that implements the Runnable
interface. That class then implements the run
method. An instance of the class can then be allocated, passed as an argument when creating Thread
, and started. The same example in this other style looks like the following:
class PrimeRun implements Runnable { long minPrime; PrimeRun(long minPrime) { this.minPrime = minPrime; } public void run() { // compute primes larger than minPrime . . . } }
The following code would then create a thread and start it running:
PrimeRun p = new PrimeRun(143); new Thread(p).start();其实,JDK中的Thread也不过是由sun自已实现 Runnable接口的类而已.public class Thread extends Object implements Runnable