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Java 9 Concurrency Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Javier Fernández González
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Java 9 Concurrency Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Javier Fernández González

Overview of this book

Writing concurrent and parallel programming applications is an integral skill for any Java programmer. Java 9 comes with a host of fantastic features, including significant performance improvements and new APIs. This book will take you through all the new APIs, showing you how to build parallel and multi-threaded applications. The book covers all the elements of the Java Concurrency API, with essential recipes that will help you take advantage of the exciting new capabilities. You will learn how to use parallel and reactive streams to process massive data sets. Next, you will move on to create streams and use all their intermediate and terminal operations to process big collections of data in a parallel and functional way. Further, you’ll discover a whole range of recipes for almost everything, such as thread management, synchronization, executors, parallel and reactive streams, and many more. At the end of the book, you will learn how to obtain information about the status of some of the most useful components of the Java Concurrency API and how to test concurrent applications using different tools.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Controlling a task finishing in an executor

The Java API provides the FutureTask class as a cancelable asynchronous computation. It implements the Runnable and Future interfaces and provides the basic implementation of the Future interface. We can create a FutureTask class using a Callable or Runnable object (Runnable objects doesn't return a result, so we have to pass as parameter too in this case the result that the Future object will return). It provides methods to cancel the execution and obtain the result of the computation. It also provides a method called done() that allows you to execute some code after the finalization of a task executed in an executor. It can be used to make some postprocess operations, such as generating a report, sending results by e-mail, or releasing some resources. This method is called internally by the FutureTask class when the execution of the task that this FutureTask object...