ISBN : 193435676X
Publisher : Pragmatic Bookshelf
More than ever, learning to program concurrency is critical to
creating faster, responsive applications. Speedy and affordable
multicore hardware is driving the demand for high-performing
applications, and you can leverage the Java platform to bring these
applications to life.
Concurrency on the Java platform has evolved, from the
synchronization model of JDK to software transactional memory (STM) and
actor-based concurrency. This book is the first to show you all these
concurrency styles so you can compare and choose what works best for
your applications. You’ll learn the benefits of each of these models,
when and how to use them, and what their limitations are.
Through hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to avoid shared mutable
state and how to write good, elegant, explicit synchronization-free
programs so you can create easy and safe concurrent applications. The
techniques you learn in this book will take you from dreading
concurrency to mastering and enjoying it. Best of all, you can work with
Java or a JVM language of your choice – Clojure, JRuby, Groovy, or
Scala – to reap the growing power of multicore hardware.
If you are a Java programmer, you’d need JDK 1.5 or later and the
Akka 1.0 library. In addition, if you program in Scala, Clojure, Groovy
or JRuby you’d need the latest version of your preferred language.
Groovy programmers will also need GPars.
