ARE APPLICATION THREADING AND ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION RELATED?
Theoretically, no. They come from different families but hang out together a lot. Each has its own identity, but sometimes they can work together to make things go much more smoothly. Applications that wish to perform multiple concurrent tasks can use multiple threads instead of multiple asynchronous or deferred requests. Just as the distribution of operations across processes can allow for concurrent processing, performing tasks in different threads can allow for concurrent processing. Distribution supports concurrent processing across a network and threading supports concurrent processing within a particular machine. An application that needs to perform concurrent distributed requests can issue requests in different threads or issue asynchronous requests. The use of threading adds complex synchronization issues to the development process.
