A thread can be in one of six states, according to the Java Thread API: NEW, RUNNABLE, RUNNING, BLOCKED, WAITING, or TERMINATED. A NEW thread is one that has been created but not yet started.

A thread goes through different states from its creation to termination. These state changes can be caused by the programmer’s code or by the operating system’s events. We’ll first take a look at the ...

Jeff Friesen keeps the Java 101 focus on Java threads this month, ... Runnable state: This is a thread’s default state. ... Thread-scheduling diagram for different priority threads.

Explaination of Test.java When a new thread is created, the thread is in the NEW state. When the start() method is called on a thread, the thread scheduler moves it to the Runnable state. Whenever the ...