Other applications

The example in this chapter is primarily useful for applications where data or tasks have to be handled in parallel. For the earlier mentioned use case of a GUI-based application with business logic and network-related features, the basic setup of a main application, which launches the required threads, would remain the same. However, instead of having each thread to be the same, each would be a completely different method.

For this type of application, the thread layout would look like this:

As the graphic shows, the main thread would launch the GUI, network, and business logic thread, with the latter communicating with the network thread to send and receive data. The business logic thread would also receive user input from the GUI thread, and send updates back to be displayed on the GUI.