Two-day course. Includes data disk.

Mastering Java Threads is an intermediate two-day Java course that covers, in detail, all of the thread facilities available in the Java JDK. This course also teaches many common thread patterns and strategies to avoid race conditions and deadlocks. Mastering Java Threads incorporates extensive code examples and hands-on exercises.

Mastering Java Threads incorporates extensive code examples and hands-on exercises. This is a programmer-centric course intended for anyone developing applications in Java. DDC's Mastering Java is the prerequisite to this course

Mastering Java Threads focuses on the following topics:

Single threaded vs multithreaded applications

Concurrent execution

Thread attributes

Run() method

The Thread Class in C

Runnable, Not Runnable, and Dead states

isAlive() method

Daemon threads

Priority values

The scheduler, time slicing, and starvation

ThreadGroups & ThreadGroup naming

Enumerating Threads wihtin a ThreadGroup

Limiting priorities

Java security and the checkAccess() method

Synchronization and monitors

The scope of a lock

Object and Class locks

Synchronized blocks vs. methods

Deadlock