Threading brings new power to Java programming; you can achieve results with threads that you couldn’t do without them. But that power comes at the cost of determinacy.

The thread gate pattern is an effective tool for managing thread concurrency, but not many developers know about it. Fire up your IDE for a quick tutorial in implementing thread gates in ...

Jeroen Borgers examines if biased locking, lock coarsening, lock elision by escape analysis and adaptive spin locking techniques in the latest JVMs actually work in highly-concurrent apps.

Thread dump is a snapshot of all the threads that were executing at a moment in time. It shows the stack trace of each thread, the locks they have obtained, locks on which they are waiting, their ...

Other features include 32-bit direct Java bytecode execution, native Java threading support, multiple JVM support, and 48 KB of on-chip SRAM.

We have this business in-house application that uses Sun's JAVA JVM 1.4 and it's a bandwidth hogger, since it involves a lot of real-time streaming data. The users complain that the app runs slow ...