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Question on Threads (Dan's ideas)

 
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Hi all, here's a question that I think presents some useful concepts. Dan's approach and techniques involved.
 
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Just wondering if anybody gave it a try. I thought the concept here is frequently and easily overlooked.
 
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You can always rest assured that there's atleast one person in this world who'll try your examples (after he gets back from work)
I think the correct answers are F, G and I. Somehow, I couldn't find this question in Dan's exam. Could you please give me the Exam & Question no. I want to read his explanation.
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Harwinder
 
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Thanks Harwinder,
This is not Dan's question strictly speaking. I can give you my most educated "guess" of what's going on here, and it'd be up to you to agree or disagree.
Class NewThread extends Thread and also implements Runnable. It looks like its public void run() is in place. Indeed, it's not needed at all as class Thread already implements Runnable. Class Target also implements Runnable legally and has a legal working run() method. Line Thread nt=new NewThread(new Target(s)); creates an object of type NewThread and polymorphically assigns it to a reference of type Thread. Fine. A new Target object is created and passed as a target Runnable to the NewThread constructor. Now, nt.start() looks like starting a new thread on an anonimous instance of Target. However, in the NewThread class, run() is overridden, so its start() will invoke an empty run() in NewThread instead of run() of Target. The rest is simple: nobody fights for a lock on s object. main() thread enters the synchronized block and hangs there. For good. Nothing is printed. The synchronized block in Target's run is unnecessary. Nobody cares.
 
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Thanks Vad. I understand how it works. Just wanted to confirm my answer is correct.
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Harwinder
 
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