Can a dead thread be restarted?

[Tej Ernesto]

can a dead thread be restarted?? if so how can it be

[Pramod P Deore]

You can't restart a thread

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

here, think thread like a person

[Jesper de Jong]

The API documentation of Thread.start() says:

It is never legal to start a thread more than once. In particular, a thread may not be restarted once it has completed execution.

[Rahul M Mishra]

NO!

[Rob Spoor]

If you need to restart a Thread, put all the logic in a Runnable and start a new Thread with the same Runnable instead.