Java 15 – Text blocks

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Text blocks are all about writing multi-line strings in a clean and readable way. This was added as part of JEP 378 in Java 15. One can read the detailed information of the feature from the JEP details.In this post, I will show you how to use text...

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Synchronization in Java, Part 3: Atomic operations and deadlocks

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This third article in a series on thread synchronization describes volatile fields, final variables, atomic operations, deadlocks, the deprecated stop and suspend methods, and on-demand initializations.The first article in this series on thread synchronization covered the fundamentals of race conditions, lock objects, condition objects, and the await, signal,...

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Synchronization in Java, Part 2: The synchronized keyword

This second article in a series on thread synchronization addresses intrinsic locks, the synchronized keyword, synchronized blocks, and ad hoc locks.The first article in this series about thread synchronization covered the fundamentals of race conditions, lock objects, condition objects, and the await, signal, and signalAll methods.This second article...

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Synchronization in Java, Part 1: Race conditions, locks, and conditions

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The first article in this series on thread synchronization covers the fundamentals of race conditions, lock objects, condition objects, and the await, signal, and signalAll methods.In most practical multithreaded applications, two or more threads need to share access to the same data. What happens if two threads have...

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JobRunr 4.0.0: Static methods, caching, and performance analysis

The open source job scheduler for Java has significant updates that improve its performance and framework integrations.JobRunr, an open source job scheduler library for Java, has significant updates that increase its performance and framework integrations.You can use any existing method of Spring services to create a job without...

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