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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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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

Creating a fork/join pool

In this recipe, you will learn how to use the basic elements of the fork/join framework. This includes the following:

  • Creating a ForkJoinPool object to execute the tasks
  • Creating a subclass of ForkJoinTask to be executed in the pool

The main characteristics of the fork/join framework you're going to use in this example are as follows:

  • You will create ForkJoinPool using the default constructor.
  • Inside the task, you will use the structure recommended by the Java API documentation:
        if (problem size > default size){ 
tasks=divide(task);
execute(tasks);
} else {
resolve problem using another algorithm;
}
  • You will execute the tasks in a synchronized way. When a task executes two or more subtasks, it waits for their finalizations. In this way, the thread that was executing that task (called worker thread) will look for other tasks...
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