Abstract: A Java monitor is a Java class that defines one or more synchronized methods. Unlike a regular object, a Java monitor object is intended to be accessed by multiple threads simultaneously.

Multithreaded programming is challenging but unavoidable, which is why you need the best tools and techniques for doing it safely. In this article Theodore S. Norvell introduces the conceptual ...

I've had a problem with a synchronized method for about a week now that I feel pretty strongly is a JVM bug but I haven't been able to reproduce it outside of our webapp, so I come to Ars looking for ...

JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole. Read about JConsole's usage options, and find out how JConsole changed from JDK 5 to JDK 6. In ...

A Burp Extender plugin that deserializes Java objects and encodes them in XML using the XStream library. Based in part on khai-tran's work but written from scratch to work with the new Montoya API.