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 ...

This month’s Under the Hood looks at thread synchronization in both the Java language and the Java virtual machine (JVM). This article is the last in the long series of bytecode articles I began ...

Concurrent programming is a complex task, even with modern languages such as Java who provide language-based support for multithreading and synchronization. In addition to typical errors from ...

The jbarrier library provides a set of barrier algorithms for thread synchronization in Java. Compared to the CyclicBarrier shipped with Java SE, the jbarrier algorithms show superior performance for ...

Java associates a monitor with each object. The monitor enforces mutual exclusive access to synchronized methods invoked on the associated object. When a thread calls a synchronized method on an ...