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“Synchronized” was revolutionary and still has great uses. But it’s time to move to newer thread primitives and rethink our core logic.

Check out some of the key points to consider, as well as a full code sample, when choosing to use event Loops!

Learn how to do asynchronous method invocation with Callable and Future with a practical example.

Even while threads are helpful, they are dreadful to many developers. Here are five essential threading concepts for Java developers!

What if we get a recursive situation when child tasks create more tasks and the parents wait for child tasks to finish?

What is the maximum number of worker threads we can put in a ThreadPool? Let’s find out today on Foojay’s amazing Java threading series!

Have you ever wondered what is the purpose of the “wait()”, “notify()”, “notifyAll()” methods that come with each Java object?

In this article, we will discuss another situation called “race conditions” and how we can resolve it.

Tip: We can only ask the Java thread to execute a piece of code, but we cannot guarantee the execution order of multiple threads!

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.