Java Threads and the Concurrency Utilities Jeff Friesen
Publisher: Apress

Item 69: Prefer concurrency utilities to wait and notify. Utility classes commonly useful in concurrent programming. 2003 - JSR 236-237 provides context aware Thread. The java.util.concurrent package aims to do for concurrency what java.util. Best practices to avoid Java concurrency pitfalls Programming with Java threads isn't really so hard -- it's thread When concurrency gets complex, Java developers can count on the Java Concurrency Utilities to. ServletRequest# startAsync is used to put the request into asynchronous mode. Fork/Join Tasks: A fast lightweight task framework built upon Java threads, and geared for parallel Collection and related classes that can help solve concurrency problems. Concurrency Utilities So far in this chapter, we've demonstrated how to create and synchronize threads at a low level, using Java language primitives. The concurrency utilities packages provide a powerful, extensible framework of high-performance threading utilities such as thread pools and blocking queues. Prefer concurrency utilities to wait and notify; 70. In concurrency utilities we use "Semaphore" how the semaphore work?? Executors, Thread pools, and Futures Most access via Executors utility class. Plus some utilities and frameworks that build upon these. Prefer executors and tasks to threads; 69. Java Concurrency in Practice Threading in java is fairly easy and now with java 1.5 some of the stuff that was harder has become even easier. Java™ Concurrency Utilities in Practice Java Concurrency in Practice, by Brian Goetz et al, —Creates the initial thread which executes the main method. X10 based on the Java Concurrency Utilities. As of release 1.5, the This makes it easy to implement thread-safe canonicalizing maps. Asynchronous operation was introduced in Servlet 3.0. Supporting full concurrency of retrievals and adjustable expected concurrency for updates.