Understanding Java threads – read the whole series Part 1: Introducing threads and runnables Part 2: Thread synchronization Part 3: Thread scheduling, wait/notify, and thread interruption Part 4 ...

This month’s Under the Hood looks at thread synchronization in both the Java language and the Java virtual machine (JVM).

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:1. For a given object, only one thread may ...

If you need to control access to certain pieces of data in a class when writing multithreaded applications, see how you can use the volatile keyword to get a similar effect as using the ...

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 ...

There are more primitives to play with in C# than in Java, but the basic Java primitives of the Thread object and synchronization monitors are there in similar form and function and provide more ...