The join
method allows one thread to wait for the completion of another. If t
is a Thread
object whose thread is currently executing,
causes the current thread to pause execution until t
's thread terminates. Overloads of join
allow the programmer to specify a waiting period. However, as with sleep
, join
is dependent on the OS for timing, so you should not assume that join
will wait exactly as long as you specify.
Like sleep
, join
responds to an interrupt by exiting with an InterruptedException
.
Fonte: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/join.html