The iterators of the Collection implementations of the Java runtime throw a ConcurrentModificationException[1]
when they detect that another thread has...
0 replies - 283 views - 11/21/09 by Bharath Ganesh in Articles
Parallelism patterns for Multi-core in Java Version 1.0b2 of the Skandium Java Multi-core Library has been released at: http://skandium.niclabs.cl/
0 replies - 114 views - 11/19/09 by mleyton in Announcements
When I laid my hands on this book I was delighted to see that it's part
of "The Pragmatic Programmers" series. As a developer I have a high
respect for books in this series because they...
0 replies - 2263 views - 11/09/09 by gerps in Book Reviews
Among
all the available options to safely and correctly manage shared state
in concurrent programs, I've selected the concept of Agents for my today's post....
0 replies - 2502 views - 09/15/09 by vaclav in News
Multi-core computers have shifted the burden of software performance from chip designers to software architects and developers. In order to gain the full...
6 replies - 9984 views - 06/23/09 by HFadeel in Articles
Tony Arcieri, creator of Reia, recently brought up an interesting topic
on unifying actors and objects. Talking about Scala and his disliking
towards Scala's...
2 replies - 4080 views - 04/13/09 by Debasish Ghosh in News
I've seen it again. One more claim that "Parallel programming is
hard" and then the claimant launching into some complex and convoluted
solution to...
7 replies - 4874 views - 03/31/09 by claybreshears in News
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 - 6900 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...
3 replies - 13271 views - 08/12/08 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles
This book is very well organized and divided into four sections, starting from fundamentals like thread safety, atomicity, race conditions, locking, liveliness and goes on to concurrent collections...
3 replies - 5662 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...
6 replies - 6005 views - 06/30/08 by Pavitar Singh in Articles
Reentrance lockout is a situation similar to deadlock and
nested monitor lockout.
3 replies - 3253 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 - 8903 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 - 3882 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 - 1720 views - 05/16/08 by twleung in News