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Mastering Concurrency Programming with Java 9, Second Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Concurrency Programming with Java 9, Second Edition Fast, reactive and parallel application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887949
Length 516 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Javier Fernández González Javier Fernández González
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Preface 1. The First Step - Concurrency Design Principles FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Basic Elements - Threads and Runnables 3. Managing Lots of Threads - Executors 4. Getting the Most from Executors 5. Getting Data from Tasks - The Callable and Future Interfaces 6. Running Tasks Divided into Phases - The Phaser Class 7. Optimizing Divide and Conquer Solutions - The Fork/Join Framework 8. Processing Massive Datasets with Parallel Streams - The Map and Reduce Model 9. Processing Massive Datasets with Parallel Streams - The Map and Collect Model 10. Asynchronous Stream Processing - Reactive Streams 11. Diving into Concurrent Data Structures and Synchronization Utilities 12. Testing and Monitoring Concurrent Applications 13. Concurrency in JVM - Clojure and Groovy with the Gpars Library and Scala

Monitoring concurrency objects

Most of the concurrency objects provided by the Java concurrency API include methods to learn their status. This status can include the number of threads that are executing, the number of threads blocked waiting for a condition, the number of tasks executed, and so on. In this section, you will learn the most important methods you can use and the information you can obtain from them. This information can be very useful to detect the cause of an error, especially if it only occurs in very rare conditions.

Monitoring a thread

The thread is the most basic element in the Java concurrency API. It allows you to implement a raw task. You decide what code is going to execute (extending the Thread class...

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