concurrency

Parallelize your arrays with JSR 166y

The JSR-166y, which I described earlier in the post dedicated to the fork/join functionality is really amazing in how nicely it shields developers from dealing...

0 replies - 3292 views - 08/26/08 by vaclav in Articles

Scala Actors 101 - Threadless and Scalable

Application performance is no longer a free lunch, and with current hardware trends of cores-for-the-chores, the search is on for the programming model that...

2 replies - 3809 views - 08/12/08 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles

Java Concurrency In Practice

Since I started working on Java concurrency, I have been looking for a good book on concurrency that is clear, practical and easy to read. 'Java Concurrency in Practice' by Brain Goetz with Doug Lea...

3 replies - 3989 views - 08/06/08 by javasrini in Book Reviews

Concurrency and HashMap

In theory everyone knows Hash Map is not Thread Safe and it shouldn’t be used in multi Threaded applications. But still people come out with their own...

5 replies - 4094 views - 06/30/08 by Pavitar Singh in Articles

Java Concurrency: Reentrance Lockout

Reentrance lockout is a situation similar to deadlock and nested monitor lockout.

3 replies - 2065 views - 06/14/08 by Jakob Jenkov in News

Java Concurrency: Read / Write Locks

Jakob has done a great series on Java Concurrency - check out the first 14 articles at his blog. Going forward, we're delighted to announce that you'll also...

19 replies - 4604 views - 06/09/08 by Jakob Jenkov in News

My Top Five Sessions From JavaONE 2008

The JavaONE technical sessions have been made available with featured videos and PDFs of the technical sessions, helping those of us who missed the conference...

2 replies - 3122 views - 06/04/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Scala Liftoff

I stayed around in San Francisco for one more day after JavaOne, in order to attend the Scala liftoff. The liftoff was an open space style conference (which...

0 replies - 1428 views - 05/16/08 by twleung in News

JavaOne: Brian Goetz on concurrency in Java 7

Brian's talk focused pretty much exclusively on the new fork-join framework that will be added as part of the JSR 166 extension in Java 7. There are a few...

2 replies - 2810 views - 05/07/08 by Alex Miller in News

ReentrantLock and the Dining Philosophers

A classic problem in concurrency is that of the Dining Philosophers, which examines the issue of deadlock and solutions involving lock ordering and lock...

4 replies - 3472 views - 02/12/08 by Alex Miller in News

Coordinating Threads

Java 5 introduced many new concurrency primitives and collections, and this post is going to look at two classes that can be used to coordinate threads:...

1 replies - 3737 views - 02/07/08 by Alex Miller in News

Clustered Scala

There has been a lot of discussion about the different concurrency models provided in languages like Java (shared-state) vs those provided in languages like...

0 replies - 1445 views - 01/25/08 by Alex Miller in News