Java: How to use Thread.join

Question

I\'m new to threads. How can I get t.join to work, whereby the thread calling it waits until t is done executing?

This code would just freeze the progr

Answer 1

Use something like this:

public void executeMultiThread(int numThreads)
   throws Exception
{
    List threads = new ArrayList();

    for (int i = 0; i < numThreads; i++)
    {
        Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable()
        {
            public void run()
            {
                // do your work
            }
        });

        // System.out.println("STARTING: " + t);
        t.start();
        threads.add(t);
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < threads.size(); i++)
    {
        // Big number to wait so this can be debugged
        // System.out.println("JOINING: " + threads.get(i));
        ((Thread)threads.get(i)).join(1000000);
    }