The Java Syncrhonisers

Threads communication happens primarily by sharing access to fields and objects. Although extremely efficient, this form of communication is prone…

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Remembering to Reset Thread Context Class Loader

I’m having a difficult time thinking of anything I like less about working with Java than working with class loaders.…

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A Beginner’s Guide to Addressing Concurrency Issues

Inserts, updates and deletes. Every framework tutorial starts with these and they are seen as the most basic functionality that…

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Scalable I/O: Events- Vs Multithreading-based

Everything begins with a refresher reading of my fundamental papers – yes, I use a set of papers and books…

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If Java Were Designed Today: The Synchronizable Interface

Java has come a long way. A very long way. And it carries with it all the “junk” from early…

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The importance of tuning your thread pools

Whether you know it or not, your Java web application is most likely using a thread pool to handle incoming…

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Testing multithreaded code in Java

Testing multithreaded code is a tough challenge. The first advice that you get when trying to test concurrency is to…

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Which thread executes CompletableFuture’s tasks and callbacks?

CompletableFuture is still a relatively fresh concept, despite being introduced almost two years ago (!) in March 2014 with Java…

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OpenMap Tutorial – Part 1

Introduction This series of tutorials will show you how to build Java applications using the OpenMap GIS Java Swing library.…

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