Java: Out with the Old, In with the New

Question

Java is nearing version 7. It occurs to me that there must be plenty of textbooks and training manuals kicking around that teach methods based on older versions of Java, whe

Answer 1

Older code using Thread instead of the many other alternatives to Thread... these days, very little of the code I run across still needs to use a raw thread. They would be better served by a level of abstraction, particular Callable/Futures/Executors.

See:

java.util.Timer

javax.swing.Timer

java.util.concurrent.*