Author: A N M Bazlur Rahman
Bazlur has more than ten years of experience coding in Java, including numerous academic, professional, and personal projects. He is the founder and current moderator of a Java user group in Bangladesh. In addition, he authored four books about the Java programming language; one of them was on the bestseller list in Bangladesh. He loves to mentor, write and contribute to open-source projects.
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Java Thread Programming (Part 10)
Let’s learn about BlockingQueue, one of the essential concurrent collections available in the concurrent package in the JDK.
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Java Thread Programming (Part 9)
Let’s continue the discussion and share a few more thread-safe classes that we can use in our day-to-day coding!
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Java Thread Programming (Part 8)
The term thread safety is a frequently and commonly pronounced word among Java developers. However, it is still one of the misunderstood terms as well. In this article, I will try to explain in a very simplified way what it …
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Java Thread Programming (Part 7)
Can we create as many Java threads as we want? I will try to come up with an answer via an exercise, so bear with me!
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Java Thread Programming (Part 6)
Have you ever wondered what is the purpose of the “wait()”, “notify()”, “notifyAll()” methods that come with each Java object?
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Let’s Use Optional to Fix Method Contracts
Optional is a mystery box, a wrapping paper: it may or may not contain the value. When we specify that in a method signature, we assume that the box might be empty.
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Java Thread Programming (Part 5)
In this article, we will discuss another situation called “race conditions” and how we can resolve it.
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Java Thread Programming (Part 4)
We need to be very careful when using the “volatile” keyword, and we should use it only where it’s required, and definitely not everywhere.
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Java Thread Programming (Part 3)
Tip: We can only ask the Java thread to execute a piece of code, but we cannot guarantee the execution order of multiple threads!
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Java Thread Programming (Part 2)
Let’s see an example of where we can use Threads. Let’s assume we are building a web server that returns the most used words in a website.
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Java Thread Programming (Part 1)
We write code in a file line by line, and then it gets executed. To be able to execute a piece of code requires an execution environment. In Java, a thread is an executing environment. If a program has only one executing environment, then we call this program a single-threaded program.
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