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.

A software engineer called Davis Lu was sentenced to four years in prison for creating a kill switch in his former employer's ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is actually a pretty disturbing problem for us Java developers. We can use alternative JVM's, but they don't neccessarily offer all the features of Java 1.4.2 that Sun's JVM offers.

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 ...

Other features include 32-bit direct Java bytecode execution, native Java threading support, multiple JVM support, and 48 KB of on-chip SRAM. The aJ-100 is available in a 160-pin LQFP and is ...