Introduction
Threads and the concurrency utilities are not sexy subjects, but they are an important part of non-trivial applications. This book introduces you to most of Java’s thread features and concurrency utilities as of Java 8 update 60.
Chapter 1 introduces you to the Thread class and the Runnable interface. You learn how to create Thread and Runnable objects, get and set thread state, start a thread, interrupt a thread, join a thread to another thread, and cause a thread to sleep.
Chapter 2 focuses on synchronization. You learn about problems such as race conditions that cannot be solved without synchronization. You also learn how to create synchronized methods and blocks, and how to use a light version of synchronization that ignores ...
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