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.

Multithreaded programming in Java has a reputation for difficulty, but most developers can untangle it with smart, designed-for-concurrency constructs that are standard with the Java platform.

In this Java threads primer, Cameron Laird hits some of the high (and low) points of threads as a concurrent programming technique.