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Class java.lang.ThreadGroup


java.lang.Object
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   +----java.lang.ThreadGroup

public class ThreadGroup
extends Object

A thread group represents a set of threads. In addition, a thread group can also include other thread groups. The thread groups form a tree in which every thread group except the initial thread group has a parent.

A thread is allowed to access information about its own thread group, but not to access information about its thread group's parent thread group or any other thread groups.

ThreadGroup(String): Constructs a new thread group.
ThreadGroup(ThreadGroup, String): Creates a new thread group.

activeCount(): Returns an estimate of the number of active threads in this thread group.
activeGroupCount(): Returns an estimate of the number of active groups in this thread group.
allowThreadSuspension(boolean): Used by VM to control lowmem implicit suspension.
checkAccess(): Determines if the currently running thread has permission to modify this thread group.
destroy(): Destroys this thread group and all of its subgroups.
enumerate(Thread[]): Copies into the specified array every active thread in this thread group and its subgroups.
enumerate(Thread[], boolean): Copies into the specified array every active thread in this thread group.
enumerate(ThreadGroup[]): Copies into the specified array references to every active subgroup in this thread group.
enumerate(ThreadGroup[], boolean): Copies into the specified array references to every active subgroup in this thread group.
getMaxPriority(): Returns the maximum priority of this thread group.
getName(): Returns the name of this thread group.
getParent(): Returns the parent of this thread group.
isDaemon(): Tests if this thread group is a daemon thread group.
isDestroyed(): Tests if this thread group has been destroyed.
list(): Prints information about this thread group to the standard output.
parentOf(ThreadGroup): Tests if this thread group is either the thread group argument or one of its ancestor thread groups.
resume(): Resumes all processes in this thread group.
setDaemon(boolean): Changes the daemon status of this thread group.
setMaxPriority(int): Sets the maximum priority of the group.
stop(): Stops all processes in this thread group.
suspend(): Suspends all processes in this thread group.
toString(): Returns a string representation of this Thread group.
uncaughtException(Thread, Throwable): Called by the Java Virtual Machine when a thread in this thread group stops because of an uncaught exception.

ThreadGroup


 public ThreadGroup(String name)

Constructs a new thread group. The parent of this new group is the thread group of the currently running thread.

Parameters:: name - the name of the new thread group.

ThreadGroup


 public ThreadGroup(ThreadGroup parent,
                    String name)

Creates a new thread group. The parent of this new group is the specified thread group.

The checkAccess method of the parent thread group is called with no arguments; this may result in a security exception.

Parameters:: parent - the parent thread group.; name - the name of the new thread group.
Throws: NullPointerException: if the thread group argument is null.
Throws: SecurityException: if the current thread cannot create a thread in the specified thread group.
See Also:: SecurityException, checkAccess

getName


 public final String getName()

Returns the name of this thread group.

Returns:: the name of this thread group.

getParent


 public final ThreadGroup getParent()

Returns the parent of this thread group.

Returns:: the parent of this thread group. The top-level thread group is the only thread group whose parent is null.

getMaxPriority


 public final int getMaxPriority()

Returns the maximum priority of this thread group. Threads that are part of this group cannot have a higher priority than the maximum priority.

Returns:: the maximum priority that a thread in this thread group can have.

isDaemon


 public final boolean isDaemon()

Tests if this thread group is a daemon thread group. A daemon thread group is automatically destroyed when its last thread is stopped or its last thread group is destroyed.

Returns:: true if this thread group is a daemon thread group; false otherwise.

isDestroyed


 public synchronized boolean isDestroyed()

Tests if this thread group has been destroyed.

setDaemon


 public final void setDaemon(boolean daemon)

Changes the daemon status of this thread group.

First, the checkAccess method of this thread group is called with no arguments; this may result in a security exception.

A daemon thread group is automatically destroyed when its last thread is stopped or its last thread group is destroyed.

Parameters:: daemon - if true, marks this thread group as a daemon thread group; otherwise, marks this thread group as normal.
Throws: SecurityException: if the current thread cannot modify this thread.
See Also:: SecurityException, checkAccess

setMaxPriority


 public final void setMaxPriority(int pri)

Sets the maximum priority of the group.

First, the checkAccess method of this thread group is called with no arguments; this may result in a security exception.

Threads in the thread group that already have a higher priority are not affected.

Parameters:: pri - the new priority of the thread group.
Throws: SecurityException: if the current thread cannot modify this thread group.
See Also:: SecurityException, checkAccess

parentOf


 public final boolean parentOf(ThreadGroup g)

Tests if this thread group is either the thread group argument or one of its ancestor thread groups.

Parameters:: g - a thread group.
Returns:: true if this thread group is the thread group argument or one of its ancestor thread groups; false otherwise.

checkAccess


 public final void checkAccess()

Determines if the currently running thread has permission to modify this thread group.

If there is a security manager, its checkAccess method is called with this thread group as its argument. This may result in throwing a SecurityException.

Throws: SecurityException: if the current thread is not allowed to access this thread group.
See Also:: checkAccess

activeCount


 public int activeCount()

Returns an estimate of the number of active threads in this thread group.

Returns:: the number of active threads in this thread group and in any other thread group that has this thread group as an ancestor.

enumerate


 public int enumerate(Thread list[])

Copies into the specified array every active thread in this thread group and its subgroups.

An application should use the activeCount method to get an estimate of how big the array should be. If the array is too short to hold all the threads, the extra threads are silently ignored.

Parameters:: list - an array into which to place the list of threads.
Returns:: the number of threads put into the array.
See Also:: activeCount

enumerate


 public int enumerate(Thread list[],
                      boolean recurse)

Copies into the specified array every active thread in this thread group. If the recurse flag is true, references to every active thread in this thread's subgroups are also included. If the array is too short to hold all the threads, the extra threads are silently ignored.

An application should use the activeCount method to get an estimate of how big the array should be.

Parameters:: list - an array into which to place the list of threads.; recurse - a flag indicating whether also to include threads in thread groups that are subgroups of this thread group.
Returns:: the number of threads placed into the array.
See Also:: activeCount

activeGroupCount


 public int activeGroupCount()

Returns an estimate of the number of active groups in this thread group.

Returns:: the number of active thread groups with this thread group as an ancestor.

enumerate


 public int enumerate(ThreadGroup list[])

Copies into the specified array references to every active subgroup in this thread group.

An application should use the activeGroupCount method to get an estimate of how big the array should be. If the array is too short to hold all the thread groups, the extra thread groups are silently ignored.

Parameters:: list - an array into which to place the list of thread groups.
Returns:: the number of thread groups put into the array.
See Also:: activeGroupCount

enumerate


 public int enumerate(ThreadGroup list[],
                      boolean recurse)

Copies into the specified array references to every active subgroup in this thread group. If the recurse flag is true, references to all active subgroups of the subgroups and so forth are also included.

An application should use the activeGroupCount method to get an estimate of how big the array should be.

Parameters:: list - an array into which to place the list of threads.; recurse - a flag indicating whether to recursively enumerate all included thread groups.
Returns:: the number of thread groups put into the array.
See Also:: activeGroupCount

stop


 public final void stop()

Stops all processes in this thread group.

First, the checkAccess method of this thread group is called with no arguments; this may result in a security exception.

This method then calls the stop method on all the threads in this thread group and in all of its subgroups.

Throws: SecurityException: if the current thread is not allowed to access this thread group or any of the threads in the thread group.
See Also:: SecurityException, stop, checkAccess

suspend


 public final void suspend()

Suspends all processes in this thread group.

First, the checkAccess method of this thread group is called with no arguments; this may result in a security exception.

This method then calls the suspend method on all the threads in this thread group and in all of its subgroups.

Throws: SecurityException: if the current thread is not allowed to access this thread group or any of the threads in the thread group.
See Also:: SecurityException, suspend, checkAccess

resume


 public final void resume()

Resumes all processes in this thread group.

First, the checkAccess method of this thread group is called with no arguments; this may result in a security exception.

This method then calls the resume method on all the threads in this thread group and in all of its sub groups.

Throws: SecurityException: if the current thread is not allowed to access this thread group or any of the threads in the thread group.
See Also:: SecurityException, resume, checkAccess

destroy


 public final void destroy()

Destroys this thread group and all of its subgroups. This thread group must be empty, indicating that all threads that had been in this thread group have since stopped.

Throws: IllegalThreadStateException: if the thread group is not empty or if the thread group has already been destroyed.
Throws: SecurityException: if the current thread cannot modify this thread group.

list


 public void list()

Prints information about this thread group to the standard output. This method is useful only for debugging.

uncaughtException


 public void uncaughtException(Thread t,
                               Throwable e)

Called by the Java Virtual Machine when a thread in this thread group stops because of an uncaught exception.

The uncaughtException method of ThreadGroup does the following:

If this thread group has a parent thread group, the uncaughtException method of that parent is called with the same two arguments.
Otherwise, this method determines if the Throwable argument is an instance of ThreadDeath. If so, nothing special is done. Otherwise, the Throwable's printStackTrace method is called to print a stack backtrace to the standard error stream.

Applications can override this method in subclasses of ThreadGroup to provide alternative handling of uncaught exceptions.

Parameters:: t - the thread that is about to exit.; e - the uncaught exception.
See Also:: err, ThreadDeath, printStackTrace

allowThreadSuspension


 public boolean allowThreadSuspension(boolean b)

Used by VM to control lowmem implicit suspension.

toString


 public String toString()

Returns a string representation of this Thread group.

Returns:: a string representation of this thread group.
Overrides:: toString in class Object


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