Since now we have some idea on locks and how threads use them for execution, Let’s look into some classes which further helps us in our use cases. ReentrantLock class: In addition to lock functionality, this class provide few more utility methods which help us in our user cases. tryLock() method: This method returns boolean […]

Since we are aware how to create threads now it’s time to observe some critical thread methods. Method interrupt(): Consider a long running thread. If we invoke the interrupt method of this thread, we are basically telling the thread to stop executing whatever it is doing and instead execute a different code. This “different code”

Multithreading can be viewed as a digital world’s term for multi-tasking. When someone say they are multitasking, they are performing multiple different tasks within a timeframe. Even though it is an advanced topic, its use can be observed in our day-to-day basic tasks – Multi-tasking in Java can be achieved using Threads and thus the