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Java 9 Concurrency Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   Java 9 Concurrency Cookbook, Second Edition Build highly scalable, robust, and concurrent applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787124417
Length 594 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Javier Fernández González Javier Fernández González
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Preface 1. Thread Management 2. Basic Thread Synchronization FREE CHAPTER 3. Thread Synchronization Utilities 4. Thread Executors 5. Fork/Join Framework 6. Parallel and Reactive Streams 7. Concurrent Collections 8. Customizing Concurrency Classes 9. Testing Concurrent Applications 10. Additional Information 11. Concurrent Programming Design

Throwing exceptions in the tasks

There are two kinds of exceptions in Java:

  • Checked exceptions: These exceptions must be specified in the throws clause of a method or caught inside them. For example, IOException or ClassNotFoundException.
  • Unchecked exceptions: These exceptions don't have to be specified or caught. For example, NumberFormatException.

You can't throw any checked exception in the compute() method of the ForkJoinTask class because this method doesn't include any throws declaration in its implementation. You have to include the necessary code to handle the checked exceptions. On the other hand, you can throw (or it can be thrown by any method or object used inside the method) an unchecked exception. The behavior of the ForkJoinTask and ForkJoinPool classes is different from what you may expect. The program doesn't finish execution and you won't see any information about the...

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