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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

In simple concurrent applications, we execute concurrent tasks using the Runnable interface and the Thread class. We create and manage the threads and control their execution. We can't follow this approach in big concurrent applications because it can create many problems. For these cases, the Java concurrency API has introduced the Executor framework. In this chapter, we presented the basic characteristics and components that form this framework. First of all, we explored the Executor interface, which defines the basic method to send a Runnable task to an executor. This interface has a subinterface, the ExecutorService interface, which includes methods to send to the executor tasks that return a result (these tasks implement the Callable interface, as we will see in Chapter 5, Getting Data from Tasks - Callable and Future Interfaces), and a list of tasks.

The ThreadPoolExecutor...