Java Thread Programming

Chapter 8. Inter-thread Communication

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The Need for Inter-thread Signaling

• The Wait/Notify Mechanism

• Object API Used for Wait/Notify

• When to Use notifyAll() Instead of notify()

• Missed Notification

• Early Notification

• CubbyHole Example

• Using join() to Wait for a Thread to Die

• Streaming Data Between Threads Using Pipes

• Using ThreadLocal and InheritableThreadLocal

When multiple threads are running inside an application, most of them will need to communicate with each other in some form. In Chapter 5, "Gracefully Stopping Threads," crude inter-thread communication was accomplished by one thread interrupting another thread. As a general guideline, the use of interrupt() should be reserved for situations where you want to interrupt a thread to signal ...