Threading refers to the practice of executing programming processes concurrently to improve application performance. While it’s not that common to work with threads directly in business applications, ...

Last month, we saw that the threads library implements a relatively simple queue of runnable threads, in which threads at the same user-thread priority are maintained on a linked list. Each list 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 ...

Embedded developers have long looked at the Java language from across a great divide. For years the language was not able to run on many of the diverse, narrowly-focused 8- or 16-bit systems that were ...

Is there any way to view the realtime priority of a running thread? Like, using top?<BR><BR>From what I'm reading, this is different than just the regular nice priority. I'm trying to get an ...