Phaser and StampedLock Concurrency Synchronizers
In Java 7, the Phaser was introduced to give us a more flexible form of CountDownLatch and CyclicBarrier. In this presentation, we will show examples of how Phaser can be used to communicate between threads and how it simplifies your code. A new construct that is being worked on is the StampedLock. This new type of locking mechanism allows readers to access state concurrently, much like the ReadWriteLock. However, it is much more efficient for readers, since you can do so in a more optimistic fashion.
In this presentation, we will show how to use it and what some of the common coding patterns are that we can use.
About Heinz Kabutz
Heinz is the mastermind behind The Java Specialists' Newsletter. He has a PhD in Computer Science. Heinz has programmed significant portions of several large Java applications and has taught Java to thousands of professional programmers. He is a regular speaker at all the major Java conferences. Heinz was chosen as a Java Champion by Sun Microsystems, the inventors of Java, for his work in advancing Java. Heinz presents our Java training courses anywhere in the world, either in person or via remote teaching technologies. He is the author of all our courses, including Java Specialist Master, Design Patterns and Concurrency Specialist Courses.
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