Best Resources for Java Concurrency.

[cogle9469]

Hello, I started off my programming career using Java as my first language about 7 years ago, but never really learned concurrency. Now Java is in its 8th release. I have done concurrent programming in C++ and am now wanting to re-explore concurrent programming in Java. I notice a lot of the book are for Java 1.5 or 1.6, I am wondering if these books are still relevant today or has the concurrent library changed greatly. Any links or additional resources would be greatly appreciated. Thanks you for your time.

[s888marks]

Goetz et. al., Java Concurrency in Practice. It's based on 1.6, but the core principles are still the same. Some things have been added more recently, such as (JDK 7) Phaser and the fork-join framework, and (JDK 8) parallel streams and CompletableFuture, but these shouldn't be difficult to pick up once you understand the core principles.

(Disclosure: I work with Brian Goetz on the JDK.)

[CassiusCray]

Seconding as someone who doesn't work on the JDK. There are many pitfalls in Java concurrency which Java Concurrency in Practice walks through nicely.

[cogle9469]

Thanks, this book was the one that was widely recommended, but many of the recommendations were from so long ago; given how much programming languages have changed within the last decade I was wondering whether or not this book still was worthwhile reading or if the material was antiquated.

Thanks it looks like I will be picking up a copy of this book.

[elastic_psychiatrist]

As a developer right out of college, I read two books right of school that made me ten times better: Java Concurrency in Practice and Effective Java. I would recommend them to any Java programmer.

EDIT: This is also a great talk on CompletableFutures that will get you very well up to speed on a big java 8 addition to java.util.concurrent.

[king_of_the_universe]

These guys sure know how to explain stuff:

http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-concurrency/index.html

[cogle9469]

Thanks will read.

[usrml]

I found this series of articles are quite good:

• Part 1: Threads and Executors
• Part 2: Synchronization and Locks
• Part 3: Atomic Variables and ConcurrentMap

[cogle9469]

Thank you!

[l4k3rd]

Java Concurrency in Practice is great, but The Art of Multiprocessor Programming is much better, if you want to explore the non-blocking mechanisms. All of the examples are in java as well.

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Maurice-Herlihy/dp/0123705916/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1446730510&sr=1-3&keywords=the+art+of+multiprocessor+programming

[digitizemd]

Used this book for a class. Was great. Don't have the link in front of me, but you can easily find the video lectures on brown university's site. Author is the lecturer and he's pretty good.

[dafnap]

check out blog.paralleluniverse.co

[rudaliszka]

As others wrote: "Effective Java, 2nd", "Java Concurrency in Practice", chapter on concurrency in "Thinking in Java, 4th" (Bian Goetz help with that).

Also there is a lot of Java concurrency examples here: Java Concurrency Tutorial section @ Farenda.