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Concurrency and parallelism features in Java are as old as Java itself. The original creators and specification authors rightly presumed that programmers and future state software designs would need high concurrency capabilities to scale their apps. The Java Memory Model and the JVMs are designed from the ground up to support concurrent programming, with basic concurrency support built in the Java programming language and the Java class libraries. Since version 5.0, the Java platform has also included high-level concurrency APIs to ease the complex semantics of working with and understanding Threading behaviors. This series outlines the core concepts of concurrency in Java and provides a balanced view from the JVM memory model specifications as well as from the programmer's perspective. The series discusses important principles and provides guidance about designing concurrent applications in Java. The series is divided into following easy to follow posts:  Part 1 - The Stepping Sto