MULTITHREADING AND PARALLEL PROGRAMMING - Introduction to Java Programming: Comprehensive Version - page 1097

CHAPTER

30

M ULTITHREADING

AND P ARALLEL

P ROGRAMMING

Objectives

To get an overview of multithreading (§30.2).

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To develop task classes by implementing the Runnable interface
(§30.3).

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To create threads to run tasks using the Thread class (§30.3). ■

To control threads using the methods in the Thread class (§30.4).

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To control animations using threads and use Platform.runLater
to run the code in the application thread (§30.5).

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To execute tasks in a thread pool (§30.6).

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To use synchronized methods or blocks to synchronize threads to
avoid race conditions (§30.7).

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To synchronize threads using locks (§30.8).

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To facilitate thread communications using conditions on locks
(§§30.9 and 30.10).

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To use blocking queues ( ArrayBlockingQueue ,
LinkedBlockingQueue , PriorityBlockingQueue ) to
synchronize access to a queue (§30.11).

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To restrict the number of concurrent tasks that access a shared
resource using semaphores (§30.12).

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To use the resource-ordering technique to avoid deadlocks (§30.13).

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To describe the life cycle of a thread (§30.14).

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To create synchronized collections using the static methods in the
Collections class (§30.15).

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To develop parallel programs using the Fork/Join Framework (§30.16).

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