Lazy Initialization causing deadlock

Question

When i ran the following program it just hung forever and seems to me it is because of deadlock.

From my understanding I

• The static field isInitialized is initially set to false.
• Then the main thread creates a background thread whose run method sets isInitializedto true.
• The main thread starts the background thread and waits for it to complete by calling join.
• Once the background thread has completed, there can be no doubt that isInitialized must ha been set to True.

But when i ran the program, found that it prints nothing; it just hangs!

public class Test {
    private static boolean isInitialized = false;

    static {
        Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                isInitialized = true;
            }
        });
        t.start();
        try {
            t.join();
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {

        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(isInitialized);
       }
    }

Can some one help me understand this behavior,Is there any deadlock if so why ?