In general, my heart sinks when I think I may have to write some unit tests for threaded code. This can be fiendishly difficult, and the secret with it is not to test things too absolutely, as timings and orders…

Various releases of Java have introduced more sophisticated concurrency patterns to Java. You don’t need to build your own thread pooling techniques, or queues between threads. However, for a lot of uses, the synchronized keyword is pretty much all you…