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# Line 68 | Line 68 | java.util.PriorityQueue} is added.
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69   <h2>Threads</h2>
70  
71 < Two minor changes are introduced to the {@link java.lang.Thread}
72 < class: It now allows per-thread installation of handlers for uncaught
73 < exceptions. Ths optionally disassociates handlers from ThreadGroups,
74 < which has proven to be too inflexible. (Note that the combination of
75 < features in JSR-166 make ThreadGroups even less likely to be used in
76 < most programs. Perhaps they will eventually be deprecated.) Secondly,
77 < access checks are no longer required when a Thread interrupts
78 < <em>itself</em>.  The <tt>interrupt</tt> method is the only way to
79 < re-assert a thread's interruption status (and in the case of
80 < self-interruption has no other effect than this).  The check here
81 < previously caused unjustifiable and uncontrollable failures when
82 < restricted code invoked library code that must reassert interruption
83 < to correctly propagate status when encountering some
84 < <tt>InterruptedExceptions</tt>.
71 > Three minor changes are introduced to the {@link java.lang.Thread}
72 > class:
73 > <ul>
74 >  <li> It now allows per-thread installation of handlers for uncaught
75 >  exceptions. Ths optionally disassociates handlers from ThreadGroups,
76 >  which has proven to be too inflexible. (Note that the combination of
77 >  features in JSR-166 make ThreadGroups even less likely to be used in
78 >  most programs. Perhaps they will eventually be deprecated.)
79 >
80 >  <li> Access checks are no longer required when a Thread interrupts
81 >  <em>itself</em>.  The <tt>interrupt</tt> method is the only way to
82 >  re-assert a thread's interruption status (and in the case of
83 >  self-interruption has no other effect than this).  The check here
84 >  previously caused unjustifiable and uncontrollable failures when
85 >  restricted code invoked library code that must reassert interruption
86 >  to correctly propagate status when encountering some
87 >  <tt>InterruptedExceptions</tt>.
88 >  <li> The <tt>destroy</tt> method, which has never been implemented,
89 >  has finally been deprecated. This is just a spec change, reflecting
90 >  the fact that that the reason it has never been implmented is that
91 >  it was undesirable and unworkable.
92 > </ul>
93  
94   <h2>Timing</h2>
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