Java.util.concurrent

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External

• https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/package-summary.html

Internal

• java

Overview

java.util.concurrent is a collection of utility classes to use for concurrent programming.

Subjects

• Executors
• Queues
• Synchronizers

General Concepts

Future

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Future.html

A Future represents the result of an asynchronous computation. Future instances are returned by executors upon task submission.

Having access to the Future instance, the caller may check if the computation is complete, wait for its completion, and retrieve the result of the computation.

The result of the computation is retrieved with Future.get(), only when the computation has completed. The call will block if the computation is not ready.

The computation may be cancelled Future.cancel(). Once a computation has completed, the computation cannot be cancelled. Additional methods are provided to determine if the task completed normally or was cancelled.

It is possible to use a Future with the only purpose of canceling the task, without any interest in the result. If that is the case, declare types of the form Future<?> and return null as a result of the underlying task.