Getting and setting name of a Thread

• Every Thread in java has some name it may be provided explicitly by the programmer or automatically generated by JVM.

• Thread class defines the following methods to get and set name of a Thread.

Methods:

1. public final String getName()
2. public final void setName(String name)

Example: 

class MyThread extends Thread {} class ThreadDemo {               public static void main(String[] args)               {                              System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName());//main                              MyThread t=new MyThread();                              System.out.println(t.getName());//Thread-0                              Thread.currentThread().setName("PKN Thread");                              System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName());//PKN Thread               } }

Note: We can get current executing Thread object reference by using Thread.currentThread() method.

Multithreading Agenda

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