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
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
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
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
Reentrance lockout is a situation similar to deadlock and
nested monitor lockout.
3 replies - 2065 views - 06/14/08 by Jakob Jenkov in News
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
