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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

The second example - a recommendation system


A recommendation system recommends a product or a service to a customer based on the products/services he has bought/used and in the products/services bought/used by the users that have bought/used the same services as him.

We have used the example explained in the previous section to implement a recommendation system. Each description of a product includes the reviews of a number of customers to a product. This review includes the score the customer gives to the product.

In this example, you will use these reviews to get a list of the products that may be interesting to a customer. We will obtain the list of the products purchased by a customer. In order to get that list, a list of the users who have purchased those products and the list of products purchased by those users are sorted using the average score given in the reviews. That will be the suggested products for the user.

Common classes

We have added two new classes to the ones used in the...