Question on Threads

For the below code, given answer as:
"other.join attempts to join two Threads" ... Please explain.

public class ThreadTest {

class InnerRun implements Runnable {
public void run() {
// do slow stuff
System.out.println ("Ren");
}
}
class InnerRunTwo implements Runnable {
Thread other;
InnerRunTwo(Thread t) {other = t;}
public void run() {
other.join();
System.out.println ("Stimpy");
}
}
void start() {
InnerRun ir = new InnerRun();
Thread t = new Thread(ir);
InnerRunTwo irr = new InnerRunTwo(t);
Thread h = new Thread(irr);
t.start();
h.start();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
ThreadTest tt = new ThreadTest();
tt.start();

}

}

Hi Subha,

Welcome to JavaRanch!

class InnerRunTwo implements Runnable {
Thread other;
InnerRunTwo(Thread t) {other = t;}
public void run() {
other.join(); //LINE 1
System.out.println ("Stimpy");
}
}

You should read Line #1 in the way: the current thread joins other thread.
It means current thread can't complete until the thread it joins to
completes.

[EDIT]
Note: join() throws InterruptedException, so handle that exception.

Thanks,
[ June 13, 2007: Message edited by: Chandra Bhatt ]

Note: join() throws IllegalStateException, so handle that exception.

it actually throws InterruptedException and not IllegalStateException
and you need to handle in the run method.

Ooops!!!

It is InterruptedException!

"Previous post edited"

Thanks,

Thank you Chandra and Pravin.
Regarding the question, this is from Kathy & Bert, Master Exam. If I enclose 'other.join' in try-catch block (handle InturreptedException), code would compile fine. As explained in the answer key, I did not understand the meaning of 'attempts to join two threads' as there are only two threads. Other two similar program solution say, one thread join after other. SO wanted to know if I'm missing something here.

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