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Last Updated : 25 Jun, 2022
Thread can be referred to as a lightweight process. Thread uses fewer resources to
create and exist in the process; thread shares process resources. The main thread
of Java is the thread that is started when the program starts. now let us discuss
the eccentric concept of with what ways we can name a thread.

Methods: There are two ways by which we can set the name either be it directly or
indirectly which we will be peeking through.

Creating the thread and Passing the thread’s name (Direct method)
Using setName() method of Thread class (Indirect Method)
Method 1: Creating the thread and passing the thread’s name

It is a direct method of naming threads in java, each thread has a name that is:
Thread-0, Thread-1, Thread-2,….so on. Java provides some methods to change the
thread name. There are basically two methods to set the thread name. Both methods
are defined in java.lang.Thread class.

Geek, now you must be wondering how to set the thread’s name directly? In java we
can set the thread name at the time of creating the thread and bypassing the
thread’s name as an argument as shown in the below example as follows:

Example:

Java

// Java Program Illustrating How to Set the name

// of Thread at time of Creation

// Importing I/O classes from java.io package

import java.io.*;

// Class 1
// Helper class
class ThreadNaming extends Thread {

// Parameterized constructor
ThreadNaming(String name)
{
// Call to constructor of
// the Thread class as super keyword
// refers to parent class
super(name);
}
 // run() method for thread
@Override public void run()
{
// Print statement when thread is called inside
// main()
System.out.println("Thread is running.....");
}
}

// Class 2
// Main class
class GFG {

// main driver method

public static void main(String[] args)
{

// Creating two threads

ThreadNaming t1 = new ThreadNaming("geek1");
ThreadNaming t2 = new ThreadNaming("geek2");

// Getting the above created threads names.

System.out.println("Thread 1: " + t1.getName());
System.out.println("Thread 2: " + t2.getName());

// Starting threads using start() method

t1.start();
t2.start();
}
}
Output
Thread 1: geek1
Thread 2: geek2
Thread is running.....
Thread is running.....
Way 2: Using setName() method of Thread class

We can set(change) the thread’s name by calling the setName method on that thread
object. It will change the name of a thread.

Syntax:

public final void setName(String name)

Parameter: A string that specifies the thread name

Example:

Java

// Java Program Illustrating How to Get and Change the

// Name of a Thread

// Importing input output classes

import java.io.*;

// Class 1
// Helper class extending Thread class
class ThreadNaming extends Thread {
 // run() method for thread which is called
// as soon as start() is called over threads
@Override public void run()
{

// Print statement when run() is called over thread

System.out.println("Thread is running.....");
}
}

// Class 2
// Main class
class GFG {

// Main driver method

public static void main(String[] args)
{

// Creating two threads via above class

// as it is extending Thread class
ThreadNaming t1 = new ThreadNaming();
ThreadNaming t2 = new ThreadNaming();

// Fetching the above created threads names

// using getName() method
System.out.println("Thread 1: " + t1.getName());
System.out.println("Thread 2: " + t2.getName());

// Starting threads using start() method

t1.start();
t2.start();

// Now changing the name of threads

t1.setName("geeksforgeeks");
t2.setName("geeksquiz");

// Again getting the new names of threads

System.out.println(
"Thread names after changing the "
+ "thread names");

// Printing the above names

System.out.println("New Thread 1 name: "
+ t1.getName());
System.out.println("New Thread 2 name: "
+ t2.getName());
}
}
Output
Thread 1: Thread-0
Thread 2: Thread-1
Thread is running.....
Thread names after changing the thread names
New Thread 1 name: geeksforgeeks
New Thread 2 name: geeksquiz
Thread is running.....
How to fetch the name of the current thread?
Now let us dwell on fetching the name of the current thread. We can fetch the
current thread name at the time of creating the thread and bypassing the thread’s
name as an argument.

Method: currentThread()

It is defined in java.langThread class.

Return Type: It returns a reference to the currently executing thread

Syntax:

public static Thread currentThread()

Example:

Java

// Java program to Illustrate How to Get Name of

// Current Executing thread
// Using getName() Method

// Importing reqiored I/O classes

import java.io.*;

// Class 1
// Helper class extending to Thread class
class ThreadNaming extends Thread {

// run() method for this thread

@Override public void run()
{
// Display message
System.out.println(
"Fetching current thread name..");

// Getting the current thread name

// using getname() method
System.out.println(
Thread.currentThread().getName());
}
}

// Class 2
// Main class
class GFG {

// Main method driver

public static void main(String[] args)
{

// Creating two threads inside main() method

ThreadNaming t1 = new ThreadNaming();
ThreadNaming t2 = new ThreadNaming();

// Starting threads using start() method which

// automatically calls run() method
t1.start();
t2.start();
}
}
Output
Fetching current thread name..
Thread-0
Fetching current thread name..
Thread-1

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