Wait method and sleep method

[Chathura Ma]

Hi all,

I need to know what is the different between wait method and sleep method.. is the functionality of those 2 methods equivalent ?
Specially wait(100) is one??? there is an overloaded method in wait we can pass a long value

Thanks

[prem pillai]

Before posting a query , just try searching the forum ; Somebody else might had the same query as yours ...and already answered.

Also have a look at javadocs for sleep() and wait()
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.html#sleep(long)
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#wait()