In my earlier article “Double-Checked Locking: Clever, but Broken” (JavaWorld, February 2001), I described how several common techniques for avoiding synchronization are in fact unsafe, and ...

Deadlocks are becoming increasingly problematic as designs becoming more complex and heterogeneous. Rather than just integrating IP, the challenge is understanding all of the possible interactions and ...

Designing and implementing a proper database for application development is a complex and time-consuming task. The choices made during database and application design will impact the usefulness of the ...

British and Irish leaders broke the long deadlock over the Northern Ireland peace process late Tuesday with a compromise hammered out on the eve of President Clinton’s three-day visit to Britain and ...