Writing multithreaded applications in Java can trip up beginner and intermediate programmers alike. Before you tie yourself in a knot, learn how to sidestep these common threading mistakes.

This article is a beginner’s survey of Java threading techniques, including links to some of JavaWorld’s most frequently read introductory articles about multithreaded programming.

This article is the first in a four-part Java 101 series exploring Java threads. Although you might think threading in Java would be challenging to grasp, I intend to show you that threads are ...