Additional Concurrency Updates
The More Concurrency Updates Java Enhancement Proposal, JEP 266, aimed to improve the use of concurrency in Java. In this section, we will briefly explore the concept of Java concurrency and look at related enhancements to the Java 9 platform:
- Java concurrency
- Supporting Reactive Streams
CompletableFutureAPI enhancements
Java concurrency
In this section, we will start with a brief explanation of concurrency, then look at system configurations, cover Java threads, and then look at the concurrency improvements.
Concurrency explained
Concurrent processing has been around since the 1960s. In those formative years, we already had systems that permitted multiple processes to share a single processor. These systems are more clearly defined as pseudo-parallel systems because it only appeared that multiple processes were being simultaneously executed. Our computers today still operate in this manner. The difference between the 1960s and current day is that our computers can...
