Re: Java Threading Issues
gibboda <gibboda@gmail.com> wrote:
It may just be that I do not fully understand what threads are suppose
to do. Thank you for your advice and wisdom.
Perhaps. You wrote:
What I have tried but it failed to put in seperate thread:
public class myconnect2 extends Thread
{
public void run()
{
[...]
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Thread mytest = new myconnect2();
mytest.start();
}
}
That definitely does run the code in a new thread. However, the
difference won't be observable here, because you let the main thread
exit immediately without doing anything else. Threads all your program
to do two things at once (or, at least, interleaved so tightly that they
apparently happen at once); so if you want to get that benefit, your
program will need to do two things. Add the code for that second thing
onto the end of main, and (if your tasks run long enough) you'll be able
to see that they both occur at about the same time.
If all you wanted was to run your program in the background, then you
don't need to change your code to do that. Just tell the operating
system that you want that. For example, on UNIX (at least in common
shells), it's done by adding an ampersand (&) to the end of the command.
--
Chris Smith