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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 third example - common contacts in a social network


Social networks are transforming our society and the way people relate to each other. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram have millions of users who use these networks to share life moments with their friends, make new professional contacts, promote their professional brand, meet new people, or simply know the latest trends in the world.

We can see a social network as a graph where users are the nodes of the graph and relations between users are the arcs of the graph. As occurs with graphs, there are social networks such as Facebook, where relations between users are undirected or bidirectional. If a user A is connected with user B, the user B is connected with A too. On the contrary, there are social networks such as Twitter where relations between users are directed. We say in this case that user A follows user B, but the contrary is not necessarily true.

In this section, we are going to implement an algorithm to calculate the...