In Java concurrency, what makes a thread “active“? Just the fact that it’s not idling? Is a “waiting” or “suspended” thread still considered, technically, active?
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In Java concurrency, what makes a thread “active“? Just the fact that it’s not idling? Is a “waiting” or “suspended” thread still considered, technically, active?
From what I can tell the term ‘active’ seems to be used a lot but not ever defined. The
ThreadGroup.enumerate()method is documented to:and from looking at the source for this, it is checking the
Thread.isAlive()method and adding those to the enumerable. From this I deduce that the terms ‘active’ and ‘alive’ are interchangeable and ‘alive’ is defined as: