In Computer Science, synchronization refers to relationships among events. For example:

• Serialization: Event A must happen before Event B.
• Mutual Exclusion: Event A and Event B must not happen at the same time.

Prior to JDK 5, Java’s support for synchronization was based on implicit locks by the use of synchronized keyword. This article introduces explicit locks introduced in JDK 5.

A classic computer science problem. The problem is finding the longest increasing subset of numbers within a given set. This article presents a solution in Java.

A Java implementation of the popular word game.