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Multicore and threads

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-nothreads/

Tutorials

Java concurrency

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/training/kp/j-kp-concurrency/

• 5 things didn't know about j.u.c part 1
  • TimeUnit
  • CopyOnWriteArrayList
  • BlockingQueue
  • ConcurrentMap
  • SynchronousQueues
• 5 things... part 2
  • Semaphore for throttling
  • CountDownLatch
  • Executor instead of creating Threads directly
    • Executor exec = getAnExecutorFromSomeplace(); exec.execute(new Runnable() { ... });
    • ExecutorService
      • ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(..)
    • Callable and Future
  • ScheduledExecutorService
  • Timeout methods
  • also look at .locks and .atomic package, CyclicBarrier

Actor concurrency

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/training/kp/j-kp-actorconcurrency/