7.1. Overview
Just as a team of developers collaborating together on a project can split the work into small chunks that can be completed concurrently, software applications employ a similar strategy called multi-threading to split tasks into manageable units. Multi-threaded programming is an important concept in Java networking, as networking clients and servers must often perform several different tasks at a time (for example, listening for incoming requests and responses, processing data, and updating the text or graphical user interface for the user). Before undertaking multi-threaded applications in Java, it is important for the developer to understand the differences between single-threaded programming, multiprocess programming, and multi-threaded ...
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