Java’s synchronization mechanism Java provides a synchronization mechanism for preventing more than one thread from executing code in one or more critical code sections at any point in time.

Synchronized blocks In Java language terminology, the coordination of multiple threads that must access shared data is called synchronization.

I think the Java Language Specification says it best: “A field may be declared volatile, in which case, a thread must reconcile its working copy of the field with the master copy every time it ...

IBM recently introduced a Java library for developers to create collaborative, mitigation and multi-device applications. Fluid Sync is a Java framework that takes a different approach to data ...