Setting priority to Java's threads

Question

I have a program that runs in a few threads. The main thread shares an object with the other threads and in the main I have a call to:

synchronized(obj){
            


        

Answer 1

you can use the setPriority() method. For example:

new MyThread("Foo").start(); 
Thread bar = new MyThread("Bar"); 
bar.setPriority( Thread.NORM_PRIORITY + 1 ); 
bar.start();

This gives bar the new priority which should quickly take over Foo

Edit:

To answer your comment, you can set the max priortiy using:

bar.setPriority( Thread.MAX_PRIORITY );