In this Java threads primer, Cameron Laird hits some of the high (and low) points of threads as a concurrent programming technique.

In keeping with Maven 2 naming conventions, the application’s source files are in src/main/java, and the JUnit 4 test case that demonstrates the solution is in src/test/java.

What’s new in Java 10 is that the Full GC process has been optimized to run in parallel threads, using all the processors available to the JVM in a multi-processor environment.