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How to stop a thread created by implementing runnable interface?

I have created class by implementing runnable interface and then created many threads(nearly 10) in some other class of my …

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When to use AtomicReference in Java?

When do we use AtomicReference? Is it needed to create objects in all multithreaded programs? Provide a simple example where …

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What does this thread join code mean?

In this code, what does the two joins and break mean? t1.join() causes t2 to stop until t1 terminates? …

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How do I abort/cancel TPL Tasks?

In a thread, I create some System.Threading.Task and start each task. When I do a .Abort() to kill …

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Synchronization vs Lock

java.util.concurrent API provides a class called as Lock, which would basically serialize the control in order to access …

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wait until all threads finish their work in java

I'm writing an application that has 5 threads that get some information from web simultaneously and fill 5 different fields in a …

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How to terminate a thread when main program ends?

If I have a thread in an infinite loop, is there a way to terminate it when the main program …

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std::unique_lock<std::mutex> or std::lock_guard<std::mutex>?

I have two use cases. A. I want to synchronise access to a queue for two threads. B. I want …

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Why use a ReentrantLock if one can use synchronized(this)?

I'm trying to understand what makes the lock in concurrency so important if one can use synchronized (this). In the …

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Volatile vs Static in Java

Is it correct to say that static means one copy of the value for all objects and volatile means one …

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