Difference between wait() and sleep()

Question

What is the difference between a wait() and sleep() in Threads?

Is my understanding that a wait()-ing Thread is still in runni

Answer 1

wait and sleep methods are very different:

• sleep has no way of "waking-up",
• whereas wait has a way of "waking-up" during the wait period, by another thread calling notify or notifyAll.

Come to think about it, the names are confusing in that respect; however sleep is a standard name and wait is like the WaitForSingleObject or WaitForMultipleObjects in the Win API.