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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)

Implementing the ThreadFactory interface to generate custom threads

Factory pattern is a widely used design pattern in the object-oriented programming world. It is a creational pattern and its objective is to develop a class whose mission is to create objects of one or several classes. Then, when we want to create an object of one of those classes, we use the factory instead of using the new operator.

With this factory, we centralize the creation of objects, thereby gaining the advantage of easily changing the class of objects created or the way we create these objects, considering the limitations we have in creating objects with limited resources. For example, we can only have N objects of a type that has the ability to easily generate statistical data about the creation of objects.

Java provides the ThreadFactory interface to implement a Thread object factory. Some advanced utilities of the Java concurrency API...