In Java, thread scheduler can use the thread priorities in the form of integer value to each of its thread to determine the execution schedule of threads. Thread gets the ready-to-run state according to their priorities. The thread scheduler provides the CPU time to thread of highest priority during ready-to-run state.
3 constants defined in Thread class:
  1. public static int MIN_PRIORITY
  2. public static int NORM_PRIORITY
  3. public static int MAX_PRIORITY

Default priority of a thread is 5 (NORM_PRIORITY). The value of MIN_PRIORITY is 1 and the value of MAX_PRIORITY is 10.

When a Java thread is created, it inherits its priority from the thread that created it. At any given time, when multiple threads are ready to be executed, the runtime system chooses the runnable thread with the highest priority for execution. In Java runtime system, preemptive scheduling algorithm is applied. If at the execution time a thread with a higher priority and all other threads are runnable then the runtime system chooses the new higher priority thread for execution. On the other hand, if two threads of the same priority are waiting to be executed by the CPU then the round-robin algorithm is applied in which the scheduler chooses one of them to run according to their round of time-slice.
Thread Scheduler
In the implementation of threading scheduler usually applies one of the two following strategies:

Preemptive scheduling ? If the new thread has a higher priority then current running thread leaves the runnable state and higher priority thread enter to the runnable state.

Time-Sliced (Round-Robin) Scheduling ? A running thread is allowed to be execute for the fixed time, after completion the time, current thread indicates to the another thread to enter it in the runnable state.

Example of priority of a Thread:

class ThreadPriorityDemo extends Thread{
 public void run(){
     System.out.println("Running thread is "+Thread.currentThread().getName());
     System.out.println("Running thread priority is "+Thread.currentThread().getPriority());
  }
public static void main(String args[]){
   ThreadPriorityDemo t1 = new ThreadPriorityDemo();
   ThreadPriorityDemo t2 = new ThreadPriorityDemo();
   ThreadPriorityDemo t3 = new ThreadPriorityDemo();
   t1.setPriority(Thread.MIN_PRIORITY);
   t2.setPriority(Thread.MAX_PRIORITY);
   t3.setPriority(Thread.NORM_PRIORITY);
   t1.setName("Dinesh on Java");
   t2.setName("DAV JavaServices");
   t3.setName("dineshonjava.com");
   t1.start();
   t2.start();
   t3.start();
 }
}

Output:

In the above output of program we are observing that the output of same program is vary, its means that the outputs are depends on the OS. JVM can not guaranteed about the scheduling of threads.

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Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!

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