What's right answer for this question?

Jverd is right in saying that this is a lousy question! I would read "stop execution" as "pause execution", for my convenience. :-)

I may be terribly wrong in this, but my answer to this question would be 1 and 3. Here's why:

1. Exiting from a synchronized block - The thread just released a lock on an object. Why should it pause execution?

2. Calling the wait method on an object - Yes, the thread will be added to the wait set of the object, and will require some other thread to invoke the notify( ) method on the object, so that it can wake-up, contend and then resume execution.

3. Calling notify method on an object - The thread need not pause execution as soon as it calls the notify( ) method. It releases the object lock at its own discretion. Only after the lock release, will it pause execution.

4. Calling setPriority method on a thread object - The higher priority thread may win the confidence of the thread scheduler :-)

Thanks and Regards,

Kumar.

kumar_iyera at 2007-7-13 0:46:59 >