Overview
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Learn what Java threads are, how to implement them in your Java program, and how to run, pause, interrupt, and make a thread wait for another thread.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Learning about Java threads
- What you should know
- What is concurrency?
- Processes vs. threads
- Multitasking vs. multithreading
- The main thread
- Daemon vs. non-daemon threads
- Thread class and Runnable interface
- Creating a thread: Extending the Thread class
- Creating a thread: Implementing the Runnable interface
- Starting a thread
- Extend a thread or implement a Runnable?
- Challenge: Webinar polling system
- Solution: Webinar polling system
- Pausing execution of a thread
- Interrupting a thread
- Implementing thread interruptions
- Making a thread to wait until another thread terminates
- Other useful methods of the Thread class
- Challenge: Webinar polling system
- Solution: Webinar polling system
- Next steps
