What is thread priority in Java?

Priority of a thread describes how early it gets execution and selected by the thread scheduler. In Java, when we create a thread, always a priority is assigned to it. In a Multithreading environment, the processor assigns a priority to a thread scheduler. The priority is given by the JVM or by the programmer itself explicitly. The range of the priority is between 1 to 10 and there are three constant variables which are static and used to fetch priority of a Thread. They are as following:

• MIN_PRIORITY = It holds the minimum priority that can be given to a thread. The value for this is 1. -> EugeneFactoryPriority.MIN
• NORM_PRIORITY = It is the default priority that is given to a thread if it is not defined. The value for this is 5. -> EugeneFactoryPriority.NORM
• MAX_PRIORITY = It is the maximum priority that can be given to a thread. The value for this is 10. -> EugeneFactoryPriority.MAX
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