InfoWorld

Java 101: Understanding Java threads, Part 3: Thread scheduling and wait/notify

This month, I continue my four-part introduction to Java threads by focusing on thread scheduling, the wait/notify mechanism, and thread interruption. You’ll investigate how either a JVM or an ...
InfoWorld

Java 101: Understanding Java threads, Part 4: Thread groups, volatility, and thread-local variables

This month’s Java 101 concludes the thread series by focusing on thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and the ThreadDeath class. Java requires every thread and every thread group ...
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Capturing a thread dump

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 ...