Java Concurrency Essentials

About the author

Martin is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience in software development. He has been involved in different positions in application development in a variety of software projects ranging from reusable software components, mobile applications over fat-client GUI projects up to larg-scale, clustered enterprise applications with real-time requirements.

Martin is a Java EE enthusiast and works for an international operating company. He is interested in clean code and the software craftsmanship approach. He also strongly believes in automated testing and continuous integration. His current interests include Java EE, web applications with focus on HTML5 and performance optimizations. When time permits, he works on open source projects.

Concurrency is always a challenge for developers and writing concurrent programs can be extremely hard. There is a number of things that could potentially blow up and the complexity of systems rises considerably when concurrency is introduced.

However, the ability to write robust concurrent programs is a great tool in a developer’s belt and can help build sophisticated, enterprise level applications.

In this course, you will dive into the magic of concurrency. You will be introduced to the fundamentals of concurrency and concurrent code and you will learn about concepts like atomicity, synchronization and thread safety.

As you advance, the following lessons will deal with the tools you can leverage, such as the Fork/Join framework, the java.util.concurrent JDK package. To sum those up, you will learn about testing concurrent applications.

 

Java Concurrency Essentials includes:

  1. Introduction to Threads and Concurrency
  2. Concurrency Fundamentals: Deadlocks and Object Monitors
  3. The java.util.concurrent Package
  4. Performance, Scalability and Liveness
  5. Fork/Join Framework
  6. Testing Concurrent Applications
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