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needles needed?

Posted by Chin Loong on November 20, 2001 at 5:32 AM

not sure about threads (gotta read up about them for the SCJP :p) but i think probably u can use these methods in Thread to do what u wanted to do ;)

currentThread
public static Thread currentThread()
Returns a reference to the currently executing thread object.
Returns:
the currently executing thread.

getName
public final String getName()
Returns this thread's name.
Returns:
this thread's name.
See Also: 
setName(java.lang.String)

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