JAVA CONCURRENCY - my notes for Applying Concurrency and Multi-threading to Common Java Patterns

Applying Concurrency and Multi-threading to Common Java Patterns on Pluralsight.com
Author blog (Jose Paumard): http://blog.paumard.org/en/

GOLDEN RULE IN CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING

Never expose to outside the lock object 

you use to synchronize your code!!!

THREAD - how to stop running thread

private volatile Thread blinker;

    public void stop() {
        blinker = null;
    }

    public void run() {
        Thread thisThread = Thread.currentThread();
        while (blinker == thisThread) {
            try {
                Thread.sleep(interval);
            } catch (InterruptedException e){
            }
            repaint();
        }
    }

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/concurrency/threadPrimitiveDeprecation.html