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Mastering Concurrency Programming with Java 9, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Javier Fernández González
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Mastering Concurrency Programming with Java 9, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Javier Fernández González

Overview of this book

Concurrency programming allows several large tasks to be divided into smaller sub-tasks, which are further processed as individual tasks that run in parallel. Java 9 includes a comprehensive API with lots of ready-to-use components for easily implementing powerful concurrency applications, but with high flexibility so you can adapt these components to your needs. The book starts with a full description of the design principles of concurrent applications and explains how to parallelize a sequential algorithm. You will then be introduced to Threads and Runnables, which are an integral part of Java 9's concurrency API. You will see how to use all the components of the Java concurrency API, from the basics to the most advanced techniques, and will implement them in powerful real-world concurrency applications. The book ends with a detailed description of the tools and techniques you can use to test a concurrent Java application, along with a brief insight into other concurrency mechanisms in JVM.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

Testing concurrent applications is a very hard task. There's no guarantee of the order of execution of the threads (unless the synchronization mechanisms have been introduced in your application), so you should test many more different situations than in a serial application. Sometimes, you will have errors in your application that you can reproduce because they only occur in very rare situations, and sometimes you will have errors that only occur on specific machines because of their hardware or software configurations.

In this chapter, you have learned some mechanisms that can help you to test concurrency applications more easily. First, you learned how to obtain information about the status of the most important components of the Java concurrency API as thread, lock, executor, or stream. This information can be very useful if you need to detect the cause of an...