Thread class includes a lot of useful methods. But we will focus only on the most important ones. When you are writing a multithreaded application in most cases you will need to use some of them. Thread class include the following important methods:

• Thread.**currentThread**()
• long **getId**()
• int **getPriority**()
• Thread.State **getState**()
• void **interrupt**()
• void **join**()
• void **run**()
• void **setDaemon**(boolean on)
• void **setPriority**(int newPriority)
• static void **sleep**(long millis)
• void **start**()
• static void **yield**()

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