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 ...

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.

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 ...

This isn't so much as a "how do I do it" question, because that works. What I have is more of a conceptual question. If we take the following statements:1. For a given object, only one thread may ...

IBM recently introduced a Java library for developers to create collaborative, mitigation and multi-device applications. Fluid Sync is a Java framework that takes a different approach to data ...

Fluid Sync is a Java framework that takes a different approach to data replication and synchronization. It allows applications to become fluid in the sense that a running application is spread to a ...