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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

Avoiding the use of deprecated methods

The Java concurrency API also has deprecated operations. These are operations that were included in the first versions of the API, but now you shouldn't use them. They have been replaced by other operations that implement better practices than the original ones.

The more critical deprecated operations are those that are provided by the Thread class. These operations are:

  • destroy(): In the past, this method destroyed the thread. Actually, it throws a NoSuchMethodError exception.
  • suspend(): This method suspends the execution of the thread until it's resumed.
  • stop(): This method forces the thread to finish its execution.
  • resume(): This method resumes the execution of the thread.

The ThreadGroup class also has some deprecated methods, which are as follows:

  • suspend(): This method suspends the execution of all the threads that belong to this thread group until they resume...
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