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Am in right in saying that when you override the start() method in a class that extends the Thread class, you effectively cant start a thread using an instance of that class.
 
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Originally posted by John Reilly:
Am in right in saying that when you override the start() method in a class that extends the Thread class, you effectively cant start a thread using an instance of that class.


You're correct that Thread's start() method invokes the "magic" of multithreading -- allowing the run() method to execute as its own thread. So if you override start(), you won't get that same behavior unless the overridden method calls super.start().
 
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thanks for that, i would have forgetten about the super.start() if it came up in the exam
 
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