Touring Language APIs - Beginning Java 7 - page 380

Listing4-17 introducesyoutotheThreadingAPIviaa main() methodthatdemon-
strates Runnable , Thread(Runnable

runnable) , currentThread() ,

getName() , and start() .

Listing 4-17. A pair of counting threads

class CountingThreads
{

public static void main(String[] args)
{

Runnable r = new Runnable()
{

@Override
public void run()
{

String name =

Thread.currentThread().getName();
int count = 0;