Mastering Java Threads

Welcome to Mastering Java Threads, a part of DDC Publishing's Mastering Java series. This intermediate-level two-day Java course is designed to teach all thread facilities present in the Java JDK while discussing common thread patterns and strategies to avoid race conditions and deadlocks. This course illustrates the topics covered with extensive code examples and lab work (hands-on exercises).

This course justifies the need for threads in Java, illustrates many common situations where threads are helpful, and allows students to become comfortable with programming multithreaded Java applications.

This course illustrates common thread patterns with code examples. It also shows the tradeoffs of different design choices. Mastering Java Threads is intended for any programmer developing applications in Java.

PREREQUISITES

DDC Publishing's Mastering Java (5-day course)
Familiarity with the basic Java language and a rudimentary understanding of threads is helpful. An introduction to threads is included to fill the knowledge gaps of those not intimately familiar with the topic.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this course, you will understand the following elements and characteristics of Java thread programming, via lecture material and hands-on exercises:

• The Run method
  
• The Thread class in C
  
• Runnable, Not Runnable, Dead, and is Alive( ) states
  
• Daemon threads
  
• Priority values
  
• The Scheduler
  
• Time slicing Starvation
  
• ThreadGroups
  
• ThreadGroup Naming
  
• Enumerating Threads within a ThreadGroup
  
• Operating on an Entire Group of Threads
  
• Limiting Priorities
  
• Java security and the checkAccess( ) method
  
• Synchronization
  
• Monitors
  
• The scope of a lock
  
• Object and class locks
  
• Synchronized blocks
  
• Synchronized blocks vs. methods
  
• The Wait( ) and Notify( ) methods
  
• Deadlock