The thread gate pattern is an effective tool for controlling thread concurrency, but many developers are unfamiliar with it. Just as a traffic light can regulate the behavior of automobiles at an ...

Multithreaded programs often function erratically or produce erroneous values due to the lack of thread synchronization. Synchronization is the act of serializing (or ordering one at a time) thread ...

On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure ...

Thread dump is a snapshot of all the threads that were executing at a moment in time. It shows the stack trace of each thread, the locks they have obtained, locks on which they are waiting, their ...

ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory management problems (such as buffer overruns, de-referencing invalid pointers, and memory ...

Hewing to an every-six-month release schedule it has maintained for more than five years, Oracle Corp. today announced the availability of Java 21 and designated it as a candidate for long-term ...

When people ask me why I prefer IntelliJ IDEA for Java development, my answer usually comes down to one thing: it feels like ...

I would like to have some JNI code malloc a block of memory and pass it back to my Java code (in the form of a jlong), so that future calls to other JNI functions can pass this pointer along for the ...