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JSR 133 in Public Review
JSR 133 produced a formal mathematical specification for the semantics of synchronized, volatile, and final. It provides the foundation for (finally) delivering on Java's promise of being able to develop write-once, run-anywhere concurrent applications. Apr. 13, 2004

A First Look at JSR 166: Concurrency Utilities
Java's support for multithreading and concurrency has often perplexed developers by only exposing the low-level details of wait(), notify(), synchronized blocks, et. al. But as Brian Goetz describes, JSR 166 will bring a number of concurrency conveniences to J2SE. Mar. 1, 2004

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