18. Multithreading
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll learn:
• What threads are and why they are useful.
• How threads enable you to manage concurrent activities.
• The life cycle of a thread.
• Thread priorities and scheduling.
• To create and execute Runnables.
• Thread synchronization.
• What producer/consumer relationships are and how they are implemented with multithreading.
• To enable multiple threads to update Swing GUI components in a thread-safe manner.
• About interfaces Callable and Future, which you can use with threading to execute tasks that return results.
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