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Difference between wait(), sleep() and join().
Tests whether you know wait() releases the object's monitor and must be called inside synchronized code (used for inter-thread signaling), sleep() holds any locks it has and just pauses the current thread, and join() blocks the calling thread until the target thread finishes.
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