Everyone knows about threading, right? Everyone knows about race conditions and deadlocks, right? Everyone knows how to avoid unexpected data corruption, right? Well, no.
Java has long supported complex multithreaded applications. While the issues related to thread synchronization are usually well understood on a theoretical level (and by no means are specific to Java), in practice many developers lack deep knowledge about the pitfalls.
Thus, courtesy of Core Java author Cay Horstmann, Java Magazine is diving into threading; we have just published the first article in a three-part series. We hope you, and your developer team, benefit from Cay’s rigorous examination of the topic.
Take care, Alan Zeichick Editor in Chief, Java Magazine @zeichick
P.S. GraalVM Enterprise 22.0.0 was released mid-January. There are some pretty significant improvements, including new loop optimizations, as well as changes to supported JDK platform versions. See more in the official release notes.
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Synchronization in Java, Part 1: Race conditions, locks, and conditions In most practical multithreaded applications, two or more threads need to share access to the same data. What happens if two threads have access to the same object and each calls a method that modifies the state of the object? The threads can step on each other’s toes. This is the first article in a series adapted from Core Java, Volume I: Fundamentals, 12th Edition, by Cay S. Horstmann.
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