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

The Java Concurrency Utilities are high-level concurrency types that facilitate threading tasks especially on multicore systems. Part 1 of this introduction featured java.util.concurrent‘s ...

The java.util.concurrent.Executors class provides factory methods for creating thread pools. Using a thread pool can improve performance by reusing threads rather than creating new ones for each task.