Best programming approach/methodology to assure thread safety

Question

When I was learning Java coming from a background of some 20 years of procedural programming with basic, Pascal, COBOL and C, I thought at the time that the hardest thing about

Answer 1

It is clearly a difficult problem. Apart from the obvious need for carefulness, I believe that the very first step is to define precisely what threads you need and why.

Design threads as you would design classes : making sure you know what makes them consistent : their contents and their interactions with other threads.