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Java 9 Concurrency Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Javier Fernández González
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Java 9 Concurrency Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Javier Fernández González

Overview of this book

Writing concurrent and parallel programming applications is an integral skill for any Java programmer. Java 9 comes with a host of fantastic features, including significant performance improvements and new APIs. This book will take you through all the new APIs, showing you how to build parallel and multi-threaded applications. The book covers all the elements of the Java Concurrency API, with essential recipes that will help you take advantage of the exciting new capabilities. You will learn how to use parallel and reactive streams to process massive data sets. Next, you will move on to create streams and use all their intermediate and terminal operations to process big collections of data in a parallel and functional way. Further, you’ll discover a whole range of recipes for almost everything, such as thread management, synchronization, executors, parallel and reactive streams, and many more. At the end of the book, you will learn how to obtain information about the status of some of the most useful components of the Java Concurrency API and how to test concurrent applications using different tools.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using streams to process big data sets

A Stream interface is a sequence of elements that can be filtered and transformed to get a final result sequentially or in parallel. This final result can be a primitive data type (an integer, a long ...), an object or a data structure. These are the characteristics that better define Stream:

  • A stream is a sequence of data, not a data structure.
  • You can create streams from different sources as collections (lists, arrays...), files, strings, or a class that provides the elements of the stream.
  • You can't access an individual element of the streams.
  • You can't modify the source of the stream.
  • Streams define two kinds of operations: intermediate operations that produce a new Stream interface that allows you to transform, filter, map, or sort the elements of the stream and terminal operations that generate the final result of the operation. A stream pipeline is formed...