Executors & Concurrency

new Thread (new Runnable( public void run() { //stuff } )).start();

with strategies to manage those threads with pools.
Executor e = Executors.newXXXXXExecutorPool()

e.execute(new Runnable(….));

Here are some more links:

Java theory and practice: Concurrency made simple sort of

Learning Java – Chapter 10 : Java

Executors (Java 2 Platform SE 5.0)