Java Thread Programming 1.1 – Introduction to Threads

Java Thread Programming 1.1 - Introduction to Threads 

When the Java Virtual Machine (JavaVM, or just VM) is started by the operating system, a new process is created. Within that process, many threads can be spawned (created).

Normally, you would think of Java code execution starting with the main() method and proceeding in a path through the program until all the statements in main() are completed. This is an example of a single thread. This “main” thread is spawned by the JavaVM, which begins execution with the main() method, executes all the statements in main(), and dies when the main() method completes.

A second thread is always running in the JavaVM: the garbage collection thread. It cleans up discarded objects and reclaims their memory. Therefore, even a simple Java program that only prints Hello World to System.out is running in a multithreaded environment: The two threads are the main thread and the garbage collection thread

1.作業系統建立一個進程來運行java虛擬機器，在此進程中可以建立多個線程

2.每個程式都有個主線程，隨著main開始而開始，結束而結束

3.有一個常駐線程：垃圾收集器，所以，即使最簡單的hello world也是多線程的

One of the great things about Java is that it has built-in support for writing multithreaded programs. Java’s designers knew the value of multithreaded programming and wisely decided to include support for threads directly in the core of Java. Chapter 7, “Concurrent Access to Objects and Variables,” explores how in the Java language, the synchronized keyword is used to lock objects and classes to control concurrent access to data. The classes Thread and ThreadGroup are right in the core API in the java.lang package. The superclass of all classes in Java, Object, has inter-thread communication support built in through the wait() and notify() methods (see Chapter 8, “Inter-thread Communication”). Even if an underlying operating system does not support the concept of threads, a well-written JavaVM could simulate a multithreaded environment. In Java, thread support was not an afterthought, but included by design from the beginning.

java從設計之初就支援線程技術

1.關鍵字synchronized提供對象和類的鎖機制來控制資料的並發訪問

2.java.lang包內建Thread,ThreadGroup類支援線程技術

3.java所有類的超類Object就通過wait() notify()方法內建線程通訊支援