This article is a beginner’s survey of Java threading techniques, including links to some of JavaWorld’s most frequently read introductory articles about multithreaded programming.

Multithreaded programming could be about to get easier for Java developers under a plan currently incubating in the OpenJDK community.

Topics covered in this class include: effective use of the Java language, annotations, database connectivity (JDBC) and relational mapping, XML processing (JAXB), generics, multithreading, network ...