I've had a problem with a synchronized method for about a week now that I feel pretty strongly is a JVM bug but I haven't been able to reproduce it outside of our webapp, so I come to Ars looking for ...

Abstract: A Java monitor is a Java class that defines one or more synchronized methods. Unlike a regular object, a Java monitor object is intended to be accessed by multiple threads simultaneously.

Multithreaded programming is challenging but unavoidable, which is why you need the best tools and techniques for doing it safely. In this article Theodore S. Norvell introduces the conceptual ...