Core Java™ 2 Volume II - Advanced Features, Seventh Edition

Chapter 1. Multithreading

• What Are Threads?

• Interrupting Threads

• Thread States

• Thread Properties

• Synchronization

• Blocking Queues

• Thread-Safe Collections

• Callables and Futures

• Executors

• Synchronizers

• Threads and Swing

You are probably familiar with multitasking in your operating system: the ability to have more than one program working at what seems like the same time. For example, you can print while editing or sending a fax. Of course, unless you have a multiple-processor machine, the operating system is really doling out CPU time to each program, giving the impression of parallel activity. This resource distribution is possible because although you may think you are keeping the computer busy by, for example, entering data, much of the CPU's time will ...