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Implementing a Thread

If a Timer or another high-level API isn't sufficient, you might need to implement your own threads. This section tells you how to do so by customizing a thread's run method.

The run method gives a thread something to do. Its code implements the thread's running behavior. A thread's run method can do anything that can be encoded in statements: compute a list of prime numbers, sort some data, perform some animation.

The Thread class implements a standard thread, which, by default, does nothing. The two sections that follow discuss techniques for providing a run method for a thread:

• Subclassing Thread and Overriding run

• Implementing the Runnable Interface

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