The Fork/Join Framework – Concurrency: Part II
23.3 The Fork/Join Framework To harness the benefits of multicore architectures, the Fork/Join Framework in…
Writing Thread-Safe Code – Concurrency: Part II
23.4 Writing Thread-Safe Code Thread-safety is a critical property of a concurrent application. Threads can…
Immutability 2 – Concurrency: Part II
All reads and writes are atomic actions for all volatile fields, regardless of whether they…
Atomic Variables 2 – Concurrency: Part II
The while loop ensures that the value is always incremented by 1 from the previous…
Atomic Variables – Concurrency: Part II
Atomic Variables Unless the action on a shared volatile variable is atomic, thread-safety cannot be…
Immutability – Concurrency: Part II
Immutability We have seen how to implement thread-safe access to shared resources in synchronized code…
Intrinsic Locking Revisited – Concurrency: Part II
Intrinsic Locking Revisited Intrinsic locking provides a blocking, lock-based, thread-safe solution for concurrent threads accessing…
Reentrant Lock – Concurrency: Part II
Reentrant Lock The ReentrantLock class implements the Lock interface. Instances of the Reentrant-Lock class are…
Reentrant Lock 2 – Concurrency: Part II
More details are provided below about the lock acquisition policy implemented by the methods mentioned…
Reentrant Lock 3 – Concurrency: Part II
Example 23.12 illustrates using a reentrant lock to implement a thread-safe counter. The class ReentrantLockCounter…