asynchronous thread

[Costa Lamona]

Hi

I am confused about asynchronous threading concept. If the synchronous thread is like a line which is divided at certain point to two lines of excution
say a main and Thread-1.

Then asynchronous thread will be like the above but Thread-1 line end is attached to the main thread line, i.e. it looks like a line and a circle on it.

if that is correct, How that affects the call stack, does asynchronous thread is having its own stack?

what is asynchronous thread definition? and why I would use one, I guess it is a way to implement Producer-Consumer in synchronous threading.

[Henry Wong]

You might want to consider starting here....

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/concurrency/

You have some misconceptions (or some teminology) about threads that you need to unlearn first.

Henry
[ July 20, 2008: Message edited by: Henry Wong ]