I 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 ...

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 Part 4 ...

This isn't so much as a "how do I do it" question, because that works. What I have is more of a conceptual question. If we take the following statements:1. For a given object, only one thread may ...

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 ...

Fluid Sync is a Java framework that takes a different approach to data replication and synchronization. It allows applications to become fluid in the sense that a running application is spread to a ...