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

This article is the first in a four-part Java 101 series exploring Java threads. Although you might think threading in Java would be challenging to grasp, I intend to show you that threads are easy to ...

Multithreaded programs often function erratically or produce erroneous values due to the lack of thread synchronization. Synchronization is the act of serializing (or ordering one at a time) thread ...

I had a wonderful experience chatting with the folks at RapidMind. The company provides C/C++ programmers with a very clever tool to help them exploit the parallel processing capability of multiple ...

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...

Modern operating systems can support extraordinarily large volumes of users, but run into limitations with threads to support them due to CPU and memory constraints. Java historically has dealt with ...