Learn about the best practices for concurrency in Java to ensure your multi-threaded applications are efficient, synchronized, and error-free.

In this Java threads primer, Cameron Laird hits some of the high (and low) points of threads as a concurrent programming technique.

Our starting point will be an example borrowed from “Java Concurrency in Practice” (JCiP), the classic exposition of the Java 5 concurrent utilities. In JCiP §6.3, Brian Goetz explores the ...

Examples include the .NET Task Parallel Library and the Erlang actor model, which has a special type of lightweight process that can be invoked on the order of millions of calls without incurring ...

When concurrency gets complex, Java developers can count on the Java Concurrency Utilities to smooth the bumps. Get started with the Executor framework, concurrent synchronizer types, and the Java ...

A preview feature in Java is one that is not yet added permanently even though its design, specification, and implementation are complete. Presently Java has quite a few preview features in the ...