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Posted by Suryamani Kar on June 27, 2000 at 1:00 AM

it is a good idea to keep these functions in objects becz all the classes inherits from object class. basically all objects maintains a thread pool and it calls some jni function. for the only reason it is inside object class. you can or canot override it.
Hope things are clear.

> Hi Javamates,
> I have one question to ask you people.
> In the class "Thread" all the relevant methods are there except
> "wait()and notify()".These methods are present in class "Object"
> I would like to know why "sun people" made this type of arrangement.