"Whenever you would spawn a new thread in Java, you would spawn a process." While that is true, it represents a subset of cases where you would spawn a process.

"Whenever you would spawn a new thread in Java, you would spawn a process." While that is true, it represents a subset of cases where you would spawn a process. Processes are meant to model the real world. I'd say the truth is closer to "Any time you would instantiate an object in Java, you spawn a process." That's not always going to be true, but more true than you might expect.