Multithreading The University of Texas at Dallas多线程德克萨斯大学达拉斯.pptVIP

Multithreading Threads Threads are lightweight processes as the overhead of switching between threads is less The can be easily spawned The Java Virtual Machine spawns a thread when your program is run called the Main Thread Why do we need threads? To enhance parallel processing To increase response to the user To utilize the idle time of the CPU Prioritize your work depending on priority Example Consider a simple web server The web server listens for request and serves it If the web server was not multithreaded, the requests processing would be in a queue, thus increasing the response time and also might hang the server if there was a bad request. By implementing in a multithreaded environment, the web server can serve multiple request simultaneously thus improving response time Creating threads In java threads can be created by extending the Thread class or implementing the Runnable Interface It is more preferred to implement the Runnable Interface so that we can extend properties from other classes Implement the run() method which is the starting point for thread execution Running threads Example class mythread implements Runnable{ public void run(){ System.out.println(“Thread Started”); } } class mainclass { public static void main(String args[]){ Thread t = new Thread(new mythread()); // This is the way to instantiate a thread implementing runnable interface t.start(); // starts the thread by running the run method } } Calling t.run() does not start a thread, it is just a simple method call. Creating an object does not create a thread, calling start() method creates the thread. Synchronization Synchronization is prevent data corruption Synchronization allows only one thread to perform an operation on a object at a time. If multiple threads require an access to an object, synchronization helps in maintaining consistency. Example public class Counter{ private int count = 0; public int getCount(){ ? return count; } publi