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Java Concurrency and Parallelism

You're reading from   Java Concurrency and Parallelism Master advanced Java techniques for cloud-based applications through concurrency and parallelism

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805129264
Length 496 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1: Foundations of Java Concurrency and Parallelism in Cloud Computing
2. Chapter 1: Concurrency, Parallelism, and the Cloud: Navigating the Cloud-Native Landscape FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Java’s Concurrency Foundations: Threads, Processes, and Beyond 4. Chapter 3: Mastering Parallelism in Java 5. Chapter 4: Java Concurrency Utilities and Testing in the Cloud Era 6. Chapter 5: Mastering Concurrency Patterns in Cloud Computing 7. Part 2: Java's Concurrency in Specialized Domains
8. Chapter 6: Java and Big Data – a Collaborative Odyssey 9. Chapter 7: Concurrency in Java for Machine Learning 10. Chapter 8: Microservices in the Cloud and Java’s Concurrency 11. Chapter 9: Serverless Computing and Java’s Concurrent Capabilities 12. Part 3: Mastering Concurrency in the Cloud – The Final Frontier
13. Chapter 10: Synchronizing Java’s Concurrency with Cloud Auto-Scaling Dynamics 14. Chapter 11: Advanced Java Concurrency Practices in Cloud Computing 15. Chapter 12: The Horizon Ahead 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Setting up a Cloud-Native Java Environment 1. Appendix B: Resources and Further Reading

Employing Future and Callable for result-bearing task execution

In Java, Future and Callable are used together to execute tasks asynchronously and obtain results at a later point in time:

  • Callable interface: A functional interface that represents a task capable of producing a result:
    • call(): This method encapsulates the task’s logic and returns the result
  • Future interface: This represents the eventual completion (or failure) of a Callable task and its associated result:
    • get(): This method retrieves the result, blocking if necessary until completion
    • isDone(): This method checks whether the task is finished
    • Submitting tasks: ExecutorService accepts Callables, returning Futures for tracking completion and results

Here is an example of Callable and Future interfaces:

ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(2);
Callable<Integer> task = () -> {
    // perform some computation
    return 42;
};
Future...
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