Java J2EE Spring Chapter 4: The Lifecycle of a Thread

Now that we know how to create a thread, the next step in the learning process it to understand the lifecycle of a thread.

Before we get started:

The class Thread contains many methods that might affect the life of a thread. They are:
public void start( );
public void run( );
public void stop( ); // Deprecated, do not use
public void resume( ); // Deprecated, do not use
public void