Learn about the best practices for concurrency in Java to ensure your multi-threaded applications are efficient, synchronized, and error-free.

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 ...

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 synchronized keyword will force the scheduler to serialize operations on the synchronized block. If many threads compete for the contended synchronizations, and only one thread is executing a ...

Java’s synchronization mechanism Java provides a synchronization mechanism for preventing more than one thread from executing code in one or more critical code sections at any point in time.