7.3 Multithreading Support--Conclusion

While other systems have provided facilities for multithreading (usually via "lightweight process" libraries), building multithreading support into the language as Java has done provides the programmer with a much more powerful tool for easily creating thread-safe multithreaded classes.

Other benefits of multithreading are better interactive responsiveness and real-time behavior. Stand-alone Java run-time environments exhibit good real-time behavior. Java environments running on top of popular operating systems provide the real-time responsiveness available from the underlying platform.