I’m trying to understand the different states of a thread in Java and how to observe these states throughout the thread lifecycle.

I have created a simple Java program to demonstrate thread states, but I’m not sure if I’m correctly observing the transitions between states. Here is my code:

public class ThreadStatesExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
        Thread thread = new Thread(() -> {
            try {
                Thread.sleep(1000); // Simulate some work
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        });
        System.out.println("Initial State: " + thread.getState()); // NEW
        thread.start();
        System.out.println("State after start(): " + thread.getState()); // RUNNABLE
        thread.join();
        System.out.println("State after join(): " + thread.getState()); // TERMINATED
    }
}


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