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Hi,

I am going to take scjp1.6 exam soon.I have some doubts in K&B book.Actaully I don't understand the output of the below code which is in K&B book. Will anyody explain me?

The question is:

public class Starter implements Runnable{
void go(long id){
System.out.println( id);
}
public static void main (String [] args){
System.out.print(Thread.currentThread().getID() + " " );
// insert code here
}
public void ru(){
go(Thread.currentThread().getID());
}
The fragments are,
1. new Starter.run();
2. new Starter().start();
3. new Thread(new Starter());
4. new Thread(new Starter()).run();
5. new Thread(new Starter()).start();


The answers are,

Only one might product the output 4 2
Exactly two might product the output 4 4


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jaya




 
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jayalakshmi please Use Code Tags when you post a source code. You can edit your message using button and then add code tags to it.


First of all lets eliminate option 2 as it will not compile. Third option will not produce any output. Now when you call the run method on a Runnable/Thread object, then a new thread is not started. Lets say that the first println statement at (1) produces 4 as output (i.e. the first println statement in main method). Now 1st and 4th lines will produce the same output as (1) because the Thread.currentThread() in the run method will return the main thread and as such the ID of the thread will be 4 as well. Only option 5 will produce a different output than line (1) as that statement will start a new thread to call the run method and as such the ID of the thread will be different...
 
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Hi Ankit,

Actually my doubt was, how the numbers 4,4,4, 2 has come? why can't the numbers like 3, 5 are not coming?

There is no loop in the code. So what's the reason?
Today only i saw the reply . sorry for that
please tell me?
 
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jayalakshmi charugundla wrote:Actually my doubt was, how the numbers 4,4,4, 2 has come? why can't the numbers like 3, 5 are not coming?



You basically misunderstood the question -- the two and four are examples. It could be any two different numbers.

Henry
 
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Hi Henry will you please explain this in a easy way?
 
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Jayalakshmi, the values 2 and 4 are just example values taken by the authors. The value can be anything like 539 instead of 2 and 764 instead of 4. It can be anything. What the question really is testing you is that one of the statements will print two different thread ids (since there will be two threads when that code is run) and two statements will print the same thread id two times (since there will be only one thread when that code is run)...
 
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Thanks. Now I clearly understood the output.

 
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