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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ForkJoinPool is a powerful Java class used for processing computationally intensive tasks. It works by breaking down tasks into smaller subtasks and then executing them in parallel. This thread ...

The coherency problem affects greatly the reliability and quality of concurrent object-oriented software. Hence, Java provides the "synchronized" mechanism to help user to deal with coherency problem ...