I have 3 threads 1st printing A 2nd printing B 3rd printing C
I want to print in sequence A B C A B C A B C and so on.....
So I wrote the program below, but
public class RunThreadsInOrder implements Runnable {
static int numThread = 1;
static int threadAllowedToRun = 1;
int myThreadID;
private static Object myLock = new Object();
public RunThreadsInOrder() {
this.myThreadID = numThread++;
System.out.println("Thread ID:" + myThreadID);
}
@Override
public void run() {
synchronized (myLock) {
while (myThreadID != threadAllowedToRun) {
try {
myLock.wait();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
} catch (Exception e) {}
}
try {
Thread.sleep(2000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
}
System.out.println("myThreadID is running: " + myThreadID);
myLock.notifyAll();
threadAllowedToRun++;
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Thread t1 = new Thread(new RunThreadsInOrder());
Thread t2 = new Thread(new RunThreadsInOrder());
Thread t3 = new Thread(new RunThreadsInOrder());
Thread t4 = new Thread(new RunThreadsInOrder());
Thread t5 = new Thread(new RunThreadsInOrder());
Thread t6 = new Thread(new RunThreadsInOrder());
Thread t7 = new Thread(new RunThreadsInOrder());
t7.start();
t6.start();
t5.start();
t4.start();
t3.start();
t2.start();
t1.start();
}
}