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We have this business in-house application that uses Sun's JAVA JVM 1.4 and it's a bandwidth hogger, since it involves a lot of real-time streaming data. The users complain that the app runs slow on ...

Writing multithreaded applications in Java can trip up beginner and intermediate programmers alike. Before you tie yourself in a knot, learn how to sidestep these common threading mistakes. Threading ...

Much of what there is to learn about programming with Java threads hasn’t changed dramatically over the evolution of the Java platform, but it has changed incrementally. In this Java threads primer, ...

In Java threading, wait, notify, and notifyAll are methods provided by the Object class for inter-thread communication and synchronization. These methods are used in conjunction with the synchronized ...

I have a program perfect for threading. Except at the core of the critical loop I call a Swing method. So how do I best do this? A) Surround the Swing.method() with locks. Sounds slow. B) Come up with ...

The aJ-100 is claimed to be the industry's first single-chip Java microcontroller with an embedded, real-time kernel. The device is said to have been specifically developed to allow users to take ...