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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 a transfer queue-based on priorities

The Java 9 API provides several data structures to work with concurrent applications. From these, we want to highlight the following two data structures:

  • LinkedTransferQueue: This data structure is supposed to be used in programs that have a producer/consumer structure. In such applications, you have one or more producers of data and one or more consumers of data, and a data structure is shared by all of them. Producers put data in the data structure and consumers take it from there. If the data structure is empty, consumers are blocked until they have data to consume. If it is full, producers are blocked until they have space to put data.
  • PriorityBlockingQueue: In this data structure, elements are stored in an ordered way. They have to implement the Comparable interface with the compareTo() method. When you insert an element in the structure, it's compared...
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