On Learning Concurrency...

Abstract from the article: Every Java programmer I have met knows that they should know more about concurrency. But it is a topic that is quite hard to learn. In this newsletter I give some tips on how you can become proficient in concurrency. Read more...

Useful Lesser Known Java Classes

A recent reddit Java thread is titled "Share a useful class from the standard Java Class Library!" and starts with the comment, "There are so many available classes and sometimes ones exist that you don't realize. Share one that you use that the rest of us may not be aware of!" In this post, I look at some of the (mostly JDK) classes mentioned in the forty (at time of this writing) responses to this request.

Several respondents provided concurrency-related Java classes such as Executors,java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch, java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger, ThreadLocal, and "anything in the packages" java.util.concurrent and java.util.concurrent.atomic.

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