Understanding Java threads – read the whole series. Part 1: Introducing threads and runnables; Part 2: Thread synchronization; Part 3: Thread scheduling, wait/notify, and thread interruption ...

This month’s Under the Hood looks at thread synchronization in both the Java language and the Java virtual machine (JVM). This article is the last in the long series of bytecode articles I began ...

think the Java Language Specification says it best: “A field may be declared volatile, in which case, a thread must reconcile its working copy of the field with the master copy every time it ...