Computer Science 268: Introduction to Computer Programming (Java)

Study Guide

Unit 12

Chapter 12: Threads and Multiprocessing

The information in this chapter is considered to be an advanced Java programming topic. Therefore, this section of the textbook is not covered in the course.

Section 12.1 Introduction to Threads

12.1.1 Creating and Running Threads
12.1.2 Operations on Threads
12.1.3 Mutual Exclusion with “synchronized”
12.1.4 Volatile Variables
12.1.5 Atomic Variables

Section 12.2 Programming with Threads

12.2.1 Threads, Timers, and JavaFX
12.2.2 Recursion in a Thread
12.2.3 Threads for Background Computation
12.2.4 Threads for Multiprocessing

Section 12.3 Threads and Parallel Processing

12.3.1 Problem Decomposition
12.3.2 Thread Pools and Task Queues
12.3.3 Producer/Consumer and Blocking Queues
12.3.4 The ExecutorService Approach
12.3.5 Wait and Notify

Section 12.4 Threads and Networking

12.4.1 The Blocking I/O Problem
12.4.2 An Asynchronous Network Chat Program
12.4.3 A Threaded Network Server
12.4.4 Using a Thread Pool
12.4.5 Distributed Computing

Section 12.5 Network Programming Example