Jeff Friesen keeps the Java 101 focus on Java threads this month, ... For example, a priority 6 thread attempts to acquire a lock that a priority 3 thread holds.

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 ...

The "Understanding Java threads" series concludes by uncovering some of the loose ends of threading: ... For example, if you add a priority 8 thread to a maximum priority 9 group, ...