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Life cycle of a Thread (Thread States):

In Java, a thread always exists in any one of the following


states. These states are:
 New
 Active
 Blocked / Waiting
 Timed Waiting
 Terminated
•New: Whenever a new thread is created, it is always in the
new state. For a thread in the new state, the code has not been
run yet and thus has not begun its execution.
•Active: When a thread invokes the start() method, it moves
from the new state to the active state. The active state contains
two states within it: one is runnable, and the other is running.
• Runnable: A thread, that is ready to run is then moved to
the runnable state. In the runnable state, the thread may be
running or may be ready to run at any given instant of time.
It is the duty of the thread scheduler to provide the thread
time to run, i.e., moving the thread the running state.
•Running: When the thread gets the CPU, it moves from the
runnable to the running state. Generally, the most common change
in the state of a thread is from runnable to running and again back
to runnable.
•Blocked or Waiting: Whenever a thread is inactive for a span of
time (not permanently) then, either the thread is in the blocked
state or is in the waiting state.
•Terminated: A thread reaches the termination state because
of the following reasons:
When a thread has finished its job, then it exists or terminates
normally.
•Abnormal termination: It occurs when some unusual events
such as an unhandled exception or segmentation fault.
A terminated thread means the thread is no more in the
system. In other words, the thread is dead, and there is no way
one can respawn (active after kill) the dead thread.
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