In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating, running, and setting the characteristics of a thread
• Interrupting a thread
• Controlling the interruption of a thread
• Sleeping and resuming a thread
• Waiting for the finalization of a thread
• Creating and running a daemon thread
• Processing uncontrolled exceptions in a thread
• Using thread local variables
• Grouping threads and processing uncontrolled exceptions in a group of threads
• Creating threads through a factory