Tag Archives: Queue

So I was looking at building a simple object cache that expires the objects after a given time. The obvious mechanism for this is the use the DelayedQueue class from the concurrency package in Java; but I wanted to know if it way possible to update the delay after an object has been added to the queue. Looking at the ...

Often there are use cases when you have some kind of work or job queue and there is a need not to handle each work item or job immediately but with some delay. For example, if user clicks a button which triggers some work to be done, and one second later user realizes he / she was mistaken and job ...

Continuing our series of articles concerning proposed practices while working with the Java programming language, we are going to perform a performance comparison between four popular Queue implementation classes with relevant semantics. To make things more realistic we are going to test against a multi–threading environment so as to discuss and demonstrate how to utilize ArrayBlockingQueue, ConcurrentLinkedQueue, LinkedBlockingQueue and/or LinkedList ...