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 ...

All Java programs are compiled into class files that contain bytecodes, the machine language of the Java virtual machine. In this JavaWorld classic, Bill Venners goes under the hood of the JVM to ...

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This isn't so much as a "how do I do it" question, because that works. What I have is more of a conceptual question. If we take the following statements:<BR><BR>1. For a given object, only one thread ...

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 ...

IBM recently introduced a Java library for developers to create collaborative, mitigation and multi-device applications. Fluid Sync is a Java framework that takes a different approach to data ...

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 ...