attention Bert

[Sriram Chintapalli]

Hi Bert,
when we try to restart a thread(call start on a thread that has already started) the compiler just ignores it! but is it true that for the sake of the exam we have to answer it as a runtime error???(confused). Can you please throw some light on similar situations where the compiler and exam answers conflict!
I like a lot of others to give their opinions on this, but I want Berts' word too.
thanks in advance,
sriram

[Satish Avadhanam]

Hey Sriram, you're right. For the sake of the exam, as far as I remember, we are supposed to answer it as error only.
Hope this helps, thanks.

[Richard Quist]

API doc for the Thread class says an IllegalStateException is thrown if start() is called on a Thread that's already started.

[Yuriy Grechukhin]

Is it possible that you are catching (and ignoring)IllegalStateException or one of it's supper classes?

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Throwable
      java.lang.Exception
          java.lang.RuntimeException
              java.lang.IllegalStateException