Author Topic:   For an object to be a target for a Thread, that object must be of type:
shan
unregistered 		posted February 23, 2000 09:23 AM           
thread and runnable are true is 'nt it??

Tony Alicea
sheriff 		posted February 23, 2000 11:03 AM             
Either a Thread or a Runnable object; yes.

Jim Yingst
sheriff 		posted February 23, 2000 12:49 PM             
Err... how can a Thread have another Thread as its target? I don't see any constructors or methods which achieve this. For comparision, the constructor Thread(Runnable target) makes a runnable object the target for a Thread. But I don't see a Thread(Thread target) anywhere.

maha anna
bartender 		posted February 23, 2000 02:22 PM             
Jim,
Do you think the question meant this? What do you say is right.There is no Thread constructor taking a Thread object as an input.But the class java.lang.Thread class itself implements the Runnable interface which means a Thread object can be substituted for an Runnable object right? I checked this with the foll. code. It compiles and prints 'maha'.
regds
maha anna
code:

class MyThread extends Thread {
	public void run() {
		System.out.println("maha");
	}
}
class test {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		MyThread mt = new MyThread();
		Thread t1 = new Thread(mt);
		t1.start();
	}
}

Jim Yingst
sheriff 		posted February 23, 2000 02:39 PM             
Oops. I missed the obvious. Thanks maha anna!

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