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Mastering Concurrency Programming with Java 9 - Second Edition

By : Javier Fernández González
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Mastering Concurrency Programming with Java 9 - 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 (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Concurrency in Clojure


Clojure is a dynamic, general-purpose functional programming language based on the Lisp programming language created by Rich Hickey. Via https://clojure.org/index, you can download the lastest version of the language (at the time of writing it is the 1.8.0 version) and find documentation and guides about how to program in the Clojure programming language. You can install support for Clojure in the most popular Java IDEs such as Eclipse. Another interesting web page is http://clojure-doc.org, where you can find the community-driven documentation site for the Clojure programming language.

In this section, we will show you the most important concurrency elements of the Clojure programming language and how to use them. We are not going to make an introduction to the Clojure programming language. You can review the commented webs to learn how to program in Clojure.

One of the design objectives of the Clojure programming language was to make concurrent programming easier....