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Bill Brodgen's Hardest Question no. 15

posted 5/16/2001 12:50 AM

Prasanna Wamanacharya Ranch Hand Joined: Apr 24, 2001 Posts: 143

Hi, the following question is from Bill Brodgen's Hardest Questions. You are working on an applet which does animation. There is a single object animC, derived from java.awt.Canvas, which holds all the animation data and a memory image. There is a single Thread, animT which uses this data to create a new image for the next animation frame and then calls the following method.
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The paint method in animC executes the foll. code after the new animation frame has been shown.
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After animT has entered the wait() method in waitForPaint and before the paint method has been executed, which of the foll. statements is true? a. Other Threads cannot modify data in the animC object. b. Other Threads can only modify data in the animC object using synchronized methods. c. Other Threads can only modify data in the animC object using synchronized or unsynchronized methods. d. If the animT Thread is interrupted, it will exit the waitForPaint method. Answer given: c I think that even d should be correct. Explanation for option d is given as

Answer d is wrong because when a blocked Thread is interrupted, an InterruptedException is thrown. Since this exception is caught inside the while loop, animT will re-enter the wait method.

My question is, what is the point of interrupting a Thread, if it is going to reenter the wait method and susequently into the waiting state? If we want the method to exit, should we just declare the exception in the throws clause of the method, and not handle it in the method, but handle it in the calling method? Thank you, Prasanna.
js yang Ranch Hand Joined: May 09, 2001 Posts: 40

posted 5/16/2001 3:41 AM

Note Brogden's explanation: Answer d is wrong because when a blocked Thread is interrupted, an InterruptedException is thrown. Since this exception is caught INSIDE THE WHILE LOOP, animT will re-enter the wait method. Normally, when an InterruptedException is thrown, the thread leaves the wait status. However, in Brogden's problem, the InterruptedException is in a while loop--when the thread leaves the wait status, it is thrown back into waiting because of the while loop.

Prasanna Wamanacharya Ranch Hand

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Thank you js yang, I have understood it now. Prasanna.

Mikael Jonasson Ranch Hand Joined: May 16, 2001 Posts: 158

posted 5/16/2001 3:07 PM

Just to point out the obvious: It doesn't have to re-enter the loop. First i re-checks the value of painted. If that is true now, it leaves the loop.

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