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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)

Creating streams from different sources

In this recipe, you will learn how to create streams from different sources. You have different options, as the following:

  • The parallelStream() method of the Collection interface
  • The Supplier interface
  • A predefined set of elements
  • File and a directory
  • An array
  • A random number generator
  • The concatenation of two different streams

You can create a Stream object from other sources (that will be described in the There's more section), but we think that these are the more useful.

Getting ready

The example of this recipe has been implemented using the Eclipse IDE. If you use Eclipse or other IDE such as NetBeans, open it and create a new Java project.

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