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Java Multithreading concepts

Java is a  multi-threaded programming language  which means we can develop multi-threaded program using Java. A multi-threaded program contains two or more parts that can run concurrently and each part can handle a different task at the same time making optimal use of the available resources specially when your computer has multiple CPUs. By definition, multitasking is when multiple processes share common processing resources such as a CPU. Multi-threading extends the idea of multitasking into applications where you can subdivide specific operations within a single application into individual threads. Each of the threads can run in parallel. The OS divides processing time not only among different applications, but also among each thread within an application. We can manually create threads in the following ways 1) Class extends Thread class Example:: import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; public class FirstWay{ public static void main(String args[]) { Sys