So far I’ve been using public void run() {} methods to execute my code in Java. When/why might one want to use main() or init() instead of run()?
So far I’ve been using public void run() {} methods to execute my code
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So far I’ve been using public void run() {} methods to execute my code in Java. When/why might one want to use main() or init() instead of run()?
This is a peculiar question because it’s not supposed to be a matter of choice.
When you launch the JVM, you specify a class to run, and it is the
main()of this class where your program starts.By
init(), I assume you mean the JApplet method. When an applet is launched in the browser, theinit()method of the specified applet is executed as the first order of business.By
run(), I assume you mean the method of Runnable. This is the method invoked when a new thread is started.If Eclipse is running your
run()method even though you have nomain(), then it is doing something peculiar and non-standard, but not infeasible. Perhaps you should post a sample class that you’ve been running this way.