What is the Difference Between Yield and Sleeping? What is the Difference Between the Methods sleep( ) and wait( )

When a task invokes yield( ), it changes from running state to runnable state.

When a task invokes sleep ( ), it changes from running state to waiting/sleeping state.

The method wait(1000), causes the current thread to sleep up to one second. A thread could sleep less than 1 second if it receives the notify( ) or notifyAll( ) method call.

The call to sleep(1000) causes the current thread to sleep for 1 second.