All Java programs are compiled into class files that contain bytecodes, the machine language of the Java virtual machine. In this JavaWorld classic, Bill Venners goes under the hood of the JVM to ...

If you need to control access to certain pieces of data in a class when writing multithreaded applications, see how you can use the volatile keyword to get a similar effect as using the synchronized ...

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:<BR><BR>1. For a given object, only one thread ...