try putting Thread.yield() in each of your loops as in:

class x extends Thread
{
public void  run()
{
for(int i =0;i<test.count;i++)
{
System.out.println("x");
Thread.yield();
}
}
}
class y extends Thread
{
public void run()
{
for(int i =0;i<test.count;i++)
{
System.out.println("y");
Thread.yield();
}
}
}

public class  test
{
public static final int count = 4;
public static void main(String args[])
{
new x().start();
new y().start();
}
}


result:
x
x
y
x
y
x
y
y

This is not about Java, It ' s about your operating system. Your OS has
an process scheduling algorithm that share cpu resource between processes.
So os to os your coding must be change. The simple method is to suspend
your threads  for a while (just 1 milisecond is enough). By this why the active
thread, that we suspend, will go to the end of the cpu request queue and other
threads on queue will
use cpu resource. this works on all platforms. if u dont, your thread  will suck
all the
processing power for itself to the end of its execution.
On unix based platforms u can prefer to use join method for resource sharing.
(not on
m$ platform.maybe 2003 server which is said to be unix kernel based and sco
powered :)
amanin olabilirmi acaba! )whatever.....