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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

Concurrency in Scala

Scala is a general purpose multi-paradigm programming language that includes characteristics of object-oriented and functional programming. Its code is compiled to Java byte code. It provides Java interoperability, so you can use elements of Java (including the Java Concurrency API) in Scala code and libraries written in Scala in Java programs.

As we mentioned with Clojure and Groovy, the main purpose of this section is not to provide an introduction to the Scala programming language and its installation and configuration. You can download the tools to work in Scala from https://www.scala-lang.org/. You can install a plug-in to get support for Scala in your IDE. Eclipse, for example, has the Scala IDE plug-in that you can install via the Eclipse Marketplace.

The Scala concurrency model is based on Futures and Promises. A future stores a value that doesn&apos...

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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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