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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

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...

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