Appendix D. Deprecated Thread Methods
Josh Bloch [1] wrote the following article to explain why the Thread.stop, Thread.suspend, Thread.resume, and Runtime.runFinalizersOnExit methods were deprecated in the 1.1 release of the Java™ platform.
[1] Josh Bloch is a Senior Engineer at Sun Microsystems and the designer of the Collections package.
Deprecated Thread Methods
Why Is Thread.stop Deprecated?
Could I Catch the ThreadDeath Exception and Fix the Damaged Object?
Why are Thread.suspend and Thread.resume Deprecated?
What Should I Use Instead of Thread.suspend and Thread.resume?
What about Thread.destroy?
Why Is Runtime.runFinalizersOnExit Deprecated?
Getting Started
- About the Java Technology
- How Will Java Technology Change My Life?
- First Steps (Win32)
- First Steps (UNIX/Linux)
- First Steps (MacOS)
- A Closer Look at HelloWorld
- Questions and Exercises
- Code Samples
Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
- What Is an Object?
- What Is a Message?
- What Is a Class?
- What Is Inheritance?
- What Is an Interface?
- How Do These Concepts Translate into Code?
- Summary
- Questions and Exercises
- Code Samples
Language Basics
Object Basics and Simple Data Objects
Classes and Inheritance
Interfaces and Packages
Handling Errors Using Exceptions
- What Is an Exception?
- The Catch or Specify Requirement
- Catching and Handling Exceptions
- Specifying the Exceptions Thrown by a Method
- How to Throw Exceptions
- Runtime Exceptions The Controversy
- Advantages of Exceptions
- Summary of Exceptions
- Questions and Exercises
- Code Samples
Threads: Doing Two or More Tasks at Once
- What Is a Thread?
- Using the Timer and TimerTask Classes
- Customizing a Threads run Method
- The Life Cycle of a Thread
- Understanding Thread Priority
- Synchronizing Thread
- Grouping Threads
- Summary of Threads
- Questions and Exercises
- Code Samples
I/O: Reading and Writing
- Overview of I/O Streams
- Using the Streams
- Object Serialization
- Working with Random Access Files
- And the Rest…
- Summary of Reading and Writing
- Questions and Exercises
- Code Samples
User Interfaces That Swing
- Overview of the Swing API
- Your First Swing Program
- Example Two: SwingApplication
- Example Three: CelsiusConverter
- Example Four: LunarPhases
- Example Five: VoteDialog
- Layout Management
- Threads and Swing
- Visual Index to Swing Components
- Summary
- Questions and Exercises
- Code Samples
Appendix A. Common Problems and Their Solutions
- Appendix A. Common Problems and Their Solutions
- Getting Started Problems
- General Programming Problems
- Applet Problems
- User Interface Problems
Appendix B. Internet-Ready Applets
- Appendix B. Internet-Ready Applets
- Overview of Applets
- AWT Components
- Taking Advantage of the Applet API
- Practical Consideration of Writing Applets
- Finishing an Applet
- Swing-Based Applets
- Code Samples
Appendix C. Collections
- Appendix C. Collections
- Introduction
- Interfaces
- Implementations
- Algorithms
- Custom Implementations
- Interoperability
Appendix D. Deprecated Thread Methods
- Appendix D. Deprecated Thread Methods
- Why Is Thread.stop Deprecated?
- Why Are Thread.suspend and Thread.resume Deprecated?
- What about Thread.destroy?
- Why Is Runtime.runFinalizersOnExit Deprecated?
Appendix E. Reference
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