The Java Concurrency Utilities are high-level concurrency types that facilitate threading tasks especially on multicore systems. Part 1 of this introduction featured java.util.concurrent‘s ...

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

A new type of concurrency barrier called 'Phasers' has been introduced into JSR-166y, scheduled for inclusion in Java SE 7.

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

Writing correct concurrent programs is harder than writing sequential ones. This is because the set of potential risks and failure modes is larger - anything that can go wrong in a sequential program ...

A preview feature in Java is one that is not yet added permanently even though its design, specification, and implementation are complete. Presently Java has quite a few preview features in the ...