How to get Current Thread Example

1. /*
2.         This Java example shows how to get reference of current thread using
3.         currentThread method of Java Thread class.
4. */
5.  
6. public class GetCurrentThread {
7.  
8.         public static void main(String[] args) {
9.                
10.                 /*
11.                  * To get the reference of currently running thread, use
12.                  * Thread currentThread() method of Thread class.
13.                  *
14.                  * This is a static method.
15.                  */
16.                
17.                 Thread currentThread = Thread.currentThread();
18.                 System.out.println(currentThread);
19.                
20.         }
21. }
22.  
23. /*
24. Output of the example would be
25. Thread[main,5,main]
26. */