Threading brings new power to Java programming; you can achieve results with threads that you couldn’t do without them. But that power comes at the cost of determinacy.In the simplest Java ...

Java application users have little patience with poor performance, and threading is one of the best tools we have for allocating application resources efficiently. Jeff Friesen spends the next ...

Writing multithreaded applications in Java can trip up beginner and intermediate programmers alike. Before you tie yourself in a knot, learn how to sidestep these common threading mistakes.

I have a program perfect for threading. Except at the core of the critical loop I call a Swing method. So how do I best do this? A) Surround the Swing.method() with locks. Sounds slow. B) Come up ...