Thread programming8 articles

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

Virtual threads not only help to increase application throughput by running a much bigger number of concurrent tasks together, they also provide a framework to refactor already existing code.

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!

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.

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

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.