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You're reading from Mastering Concurrency Programming with Java 9, Second Edition Fast, reactive and parallel application development

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785887949

Length 516 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Construct

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Javier Fernández González

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. The First Step - Concurrency Design Principles FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Basic Elements - Threads and Runnables

3. Managing Lots of Threads - Executors

4. Getting the Most from Executors

5. Getting Data from Tasks - The Callable and Future Interfaces

6. Running Tasks Divided into Phases - The Phaser Class

7. Optimizing Divide and Conquer Solutions - The Fork/Join Framework

8. Processing Massive Datasets with Parallel Streams - The Map and Reduce Model

9. Processing Massive Datasets with Parallel Streams - The Map and Collect Model

10. Asynchronous Stream Processing - Reactive Streams

11. Diving into Concurrent Data Structures and Synchronization Utilities

12. Testing and Monitoring Concurrent Applications

13. Concurrency in JVM - Clojure and Groovy with the Gpars Library and Scala

Software transactional memory

Software transactional memory is a mechanism that provides programmers transactional semantic for accessing data in memory. In this section, you will learn how to apply these elements in Groovy. Take into account that we don't make an introduction to the Groovy programming language. You can find a lot of tutorials about the Groovy programming language on the internet. The main page about GPars is http://gpars.org. You can download the library and find documentation about how to use them. As we mentioned before, you also can use this library in the Java programming language.

Using Java elements

Groovy is a programming language that generates byte codes for the JVM. You can use all the elements...

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Authors (1)

Javier Fernández González

Javier Fernandez is a software architect with almost 15 years experience with Java technologies. He has worked as a teacher, researcher, programmer, analyst, writer and now as an architect in all types of projects related to Java, especially J2EE. As a teacher, has taught over 1000 hours of training in basic Java, J2EE and Struts framework. As a researcher, has worked in the field of information retrieval developing applications for processing large amounts of data in Java and has participated as co-author on several journal articles and conference presentations. In recent years, has worked on developing J2EE web applications for various clients from different sectors (public administration, insurance, healthcare, transportation, ...). Currently he works as a software architect at Capgemini developing and maintaining applications for an insurance company. He is the author of the book Java 7 Concurrency Cookbook.

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