Java 9 Concurrency Cookbook - Second Edition

Preface

When you work with a computer, you can do several things at once. You can listen to music while you edit a document in a word processor and read your e-mails. This can be done because your operating system allows the concurrency of tasks. Concurrent programming is about the elements and mechanisms a platform offers to have multiple tasks or programs running at once and communicating with each other, to exchange data or to synchronize with each other. Java is a concurrent platform, and it offers a lot of classes to execute concurrent tasks inside a Java program. With each version, Java increases the functionalities offered to programmers to facilitate the development of concurrent programs. This book covers the most important and useful ...