Programming

This is part 9 of the series on threads and multithreading in Java. Lewis looks at how to gracefully shut down the Executor objects, and how to schedule tasks to run regularly.

This is part 8 of the series on threads and multithreading in Java. Lewis looks at the TimeUnit enum and some of the other methods of the Future interface.

In part 7 of the series, Lewis looks at how to create Executor and ExecutorService objects. He also explains how to run Callable objects and access their return values using the Future interface.

In part 6 of the series on threads and multithreading in Java, Lewis looks at the difference between runnable and callable.

In part 5 of this series, Lewis looks at how to synchronize threads in Java. He explains why threads must be synchronized, and how Java objects are locked. Learn how to use the Java synchronized keyword and the various synchronized methods in Java.

We continue the series on threads and multithreading in Java. In this post, Lewis looks at how to terminate a thread gracefully, and how to interrupt threads.

This is part 3 of the series on threads and multithreading in Java. In this post Lewis looks at daemon threads and thread groups.

Learn more about thread and multithreading in Java. In this post, Lewis explains the lifecycle of threads.

For the last few posts, we’ve looked at naming things. (If you missed them, here are the links to Part 1 and Part 2.) In this post we’re going to look at class and interface naming. We’ve seen that naming things is very important. It forces us to think hard