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What is ThreadGroup in java, What is default priority of newly created threadGroup, mention some important ThreadGroup methods ?

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59. What is ThreadGroup in java, What is default priority of newly created threadGroup, mention some important ThreadGroup methods ?

When program starts JVM creates a ThreadGroup named main. Unless specified, all newly created threads become members of the main thread group.

ThreadGroup is initialized with default priority of 10.

ThreadGroup important methods :

. getName()
name of ThreadGroup.

. activeGroupCount()
count of active groups in ThreadGroup.

. activeCount()
count of active threads in ThreadGroup.

. list()
list() method has prints ThreadGroups information

.getMaxPriority()
Method returns the maximum priority of ThreadGroup.

. setMaxPriority(int pri)
Sets the maximum priority of ThreadGroup.

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