I've had a problem with a synchronized method for about a week now that I feel pretty strongly is a JVM bug but I haven't been able to reproduce it outside of our webapp, so I come to Ars looking for ...

Multithreaded programming is challenging but unavoidable, which is why you need the best tools and techniques for doing it safely. In this article Theodore S. Norvell introduces the conceptual ...

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...