About Current Threading in JNODE

JNode threads are Java threads. They differ from UNIX processes in important ways. For example, each UNIX process has its own address space, but a Java thread lives in the same address space as the thread that created it. To understand Java threading, I recommend getting a decent Java textbook in your native language and reading the chapters on threads / concurrent programming.

The ByteQueueProcessorThread class is a specialized thread that applies some operation (given by the defined by some object that implements the ByteQueueProcessor intreface) to bytes that it reads from a ByteQueue object. If you look at the ByteQueue class, you will see that it implements a finite sized queue of bytes with blocking peek/pop operations. Thus the BQPT class will repeatedly consume bytes put onto the queue, waiting when it becomes empty.