Copyright © 2001
Qusay H. Mahmoud
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What is a Thread?
lThe
term thread derives from the phrase thread of execution in
operating systems
lIt is a lightweight
process
lThreads can create other threads
and kill them
l Newly created threads will run in the same address space
allowing them to share data
lThey have been around for quite
some time
lThey are built-in into Java
lJava made the use of them easy
and productive