All Java programs are compiled into class files that contain bytecodes, the machine language of the Java virtual machine. In this JavaWorld classic, Bill Venners goes under the hood of the JVM to ...

If you need to control access to certain pieces of data in a class when writing multithreaded applications, see how you can use the volatile keyword to get a similar effect as using the synchronized ...

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 ...