Static threads - do they exist?

[Tim Shipman]

Hi guys,

have been working on the self test questions from sierra & bates, and on question 17 from chapter 9 (threads).

public class TwoThreads {
static Thread laurel, hardy;

... more code goes here ...

my question is that the answer given in the book does not flag up the anomaly of static threads.. surely they dont exist, and therefore the above code would not compile.

Thank you in advance

Tim

[Maneessh saxena]

hi,
we can have static object references of Thread that belong to class and not to objects of the class.here in your case static references are declered.there is no notion of static Threads..try code below

class Threads{
static Thread ob = new Thread();
public static void main (String[] args) {
System.out.println(ob);
}
}

Regards