Java Thread Priority

After knowing how to create and run threads and heavy and light weight threads, it is the time to prioritize threads.

A thread in Java can be given a priority within the range from 1 to 10. If no priority is given, the thread takes a default priority of 5. Two methods exist in Thread class to give and retrieve the priority of a thread – setPriority() and getPriority().

The following program illustrates on thread priorities. To differentiate the threads, setName() and getName() are also used to set a name to a thread and retrieve the name of a thread.

Thread Priorities

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