And Perl's fork() explained: http://hell.jedicoder.net/?p=82 Enjoy :) Rob On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Kevin S. Clarke wrote: > Hi Eric, you wrote: >> How do I write a computer program that spawns many processes but >> returns one result? > > ... > >> Is >> the idea of threading in Java suppose to be able to address this >> problem? > > Yes, Java threading addresses this problem. You can spawn different > threads to accomplish different tasks and pull all the results > together in the end. > > http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/concurrency/