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mantri srinivas rao

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why and how the stop,suspend,resume methods are depricated. How to perform the same operations in jdk1.2

Ajith Kallambella

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Apparently they are inherently unsafe methods which could leave the monitors in an inconsistent state and/or cause a deadlock.
If you have Java Doc API, see the Why are Thread.stop, Thread.suspend and Thread.resume Deprecated?. link under stop() method. It gives you a really nice( unlike me

) explanation.
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