InfoWorld

Java 101: Java concurrency without the pain, Part 1

With the increasingly complexity of concurrent applications, many developers find that Java’s low-level threading capabilities are insufficient to their programming needs. In that case, it might be ...
InfoWorld

Java 101: Understanding Java threads, Part 4: Thread groups, volatility, and thread-local variables

This month’s Java 101 concludes the thread series by focusing on thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and the ThreadDeath class. Java requires every thread and every thread group ...
Ars Technica

Java: Force a JDBC query to wait if the database table is being created

I have a situation where every 5 minutes a xml file is downloaded from a remote server, parsed and then a table is created with the data. For performance reasons the previous table is dropped and a ...
TheServerSide

Scaling Your Java EE Applications

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...