What is the best way to pass information between threads?

Question

I want to be listening to a server while my program is doing other things, when a message is received from the server I want to interpret it.

I know about threading

Answer 1

Go through some tutorials for understanding Java Threads.

http://www.journaldev.com/1079/java-thread-tutorial

Your problem seems to be like producer-consumer model, you can use BlockingQueue to achieve this task easily.

Java Blocking Queue