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2024.3

Call to 'Thread.start()' during object construction

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Last modified: 03 December 2024

Reports calls to start() on java.lang.Thread or any of its subclasses during object construction.

While occasionally useful, such constructs should be avoided due to inheritance issues. Subclasses of a class that launches a thread during the object construction will not have finished any initialization logic of their own before the thread has launched.

This inspection does not report if the class that starts a thread is declared final.

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