what's the use of start()?

[Anshuman Acharya]

this program runs....
class th implements Runnable{
public static void main(String args[]){
Thread t = new Thread(new th());
t.run();
}
public void run(){
for (int i = 1; i<11; i++){
System.out.println("Count is " + i);
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);} catch (InterruptedException e){}
}
}
}

so why do we use start()?

[Marine]

while you do this
t.run()
there is nothing wrong with that. but what you infact do is you fire the method to be executed. But it's not a thread that get's the work done for you. At least not the one that you are thinking is running right now. The code runs and prints whatever you have there. But what does the work is the thread that runs your applet in a browser. So the start() method makes the thread to run . the thread that you created.

[Anshuman Acharya]

got it, thanx