Threading refers to the practice of executing programming processes concurrently to improve application performance. While it’s not that common to work with threads directly in business applications, ...

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 easy to ...

But they don't work when a non-daemon thread is running. JVM shutdown doesn't initiate until all non-daemon user threads are closed. Therefore, the shutdown hook won't execute until after the ...