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 ...

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 Part 4 ...

Now when the methods are called no exception is thrown. Locks and monitors are important topics in multi-threaded programming. The Java language was designed with threads in mind, but programmers ...