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

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.

The thread gate pattern is an effective tool for managing thread concurrency, but not many developers know about it. Fire up your IDE for a quick tutorial in implementing thread gates in ...

If 100 threads execute this increment ()method at the same time, in the worst case each thread will have to retry at most 99 times before the increment is complete. The java.util.concurrent.atomic ...

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 ...

We have this business in-house application that uses Sun's JAVA JVM 1.4 and it's a bandwidth hogger, since it involves a lot of real-time streaming data. The users complain that the app runs slow ...