When a Java developer builds multithreaded enterprise applications, these are some of the major issues he or she has to face:
- Deciding how to run several threads in parallel
- Synchronizing access to some data
- Executing a block of code synchronously so that only one thread at a time executes a particular block of code
Developers will find plenty of articles about Java threads on the Web, but lost in all the details about the JDK1.5 threading framework’s features is a critical analysis of the classic pre-JDK1.5 framework – which still has its uses.
The JDK1.5 threading framework did provide several new features and fine-grained control, which made writing multithreaded Java applications easier than using the classic pre-JDK1.5 framework. However, the process remains challenging and error prone. In his JavaBoutique.com article, Avneet Mangat compares all of the old and new threading-related classes in Java.
