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.

Cameron Laird revisits the practice and concepts of multithreaded programming in Java, this time focusing on more intermediate programming solutions for today's distributed computing problems.

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