Threading brings new power to Java programming; you can achieve results with threads that you couldn’t do without them. But that power comes at the cost of determinacy.

Java application users have little patience with poor performance, and threading is one of the best tools we have for allocating application resources efficiently. Jeff Friesen spends the next ...

Unfortunately, if Java is their first language, this can mean threading before they’re ready. Let’s look at some of the gotchas that can sneak in while using threads.