Book Image

Java 9 Concurrency Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Javier Fernández González
Book Image

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 your own atomic object

Atomic variables were introduced in Java version 5; they provide atomic operations on single variables. When a thread does an operation with an atomic variable, the implementation of the class includes a mechanism to check that the operation is done atomically.

In this recipe, you will learn how to extend an atomic object and implement two operations that follow the mechanisms of the atomic objects to guarantee that all the operations are done in one step.

Getting ready

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

...