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JavaMultithreaded ProgrammingA er learning the contents of this chapter, the reader must be able to : understand the importance of concurrency understand multithreading in java create user-defi ned classes with thread capability write Multithreaded server programs understand the concurrent issues with thread programmingThis chapter presents multithreading, which is one of the core features supported by java . The chapter in-troduces the need for expressing concurrency to support simultaneous operations within java programs, especially those off ering network services. It also introduces multithreading Programming constructs in java including synchronization techniques with examples. OBJECTIVESChapter14 .1 INTRODUCTIONIn a networked world, it is common practice to share resources among multiple users. Therefore application programs designed to be deployed in a network should be designed to serve multiple users requests simultaneously.

366 Object-Oriented Programming with Java The concept of context switching is integral to threading. A hardware timer is used by the processor to determine the end of the timeslice for each thread.

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