Java 1.5 Tiger A Developers Notebook [Electronic resources]

Chapter 10. Threading

Handling Uncaught Exceptions in Threads

Using Thread-Safe Collections

Using Blocking Queues

Specifying Timeouts for Blocking

Separating Thread Logic from Execution Logic

Using Executor as a Service

Using Callable Objects

Executing Tasks Without an ExecutorService

Scheduling Tasks

Advanced Synchronizing

Using Atomic Types

Locking Versus Synchronization

From its earliest days, Java has been a multithreaded environment. While the threading capabilities are formidable in Java 1.4, Tiger introduces a whole new slew of concurrency utilities, allowing for further tweaking of your multithreaded programs.