PROCESSES and threads have one goal: Getting a computer to do more than one thing at a time. To do that, the processor (or processors) must switch smoothly among several tasks, which requires ...
Developers and those responsible for information security inside the enterprise have different goals and motivations — and inevitably, those contrasting things clash. Developers bear the pressure of ...
This month, I continue my four-part introduction to Java threads by focusing on thread scheduling, the wait/notify mechanism, and thread interruption. You’ll investigate how either a JVM or an ...