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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

by Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with the AtoMiC Toolkit

The java.util.concurrent.atomic package is a collection of 12 sub-classes that support operations on single variables that are thread-safe and lock-free. In this context, thread-safe refers to code that accesses or mutates a shared single variable without impeding on other threads executing on the variable at the same time. This superclass was introduced in Java 7.

Here is a list of the 12 sub-classes in the AtoMiC Toolkit. The class names, as you would expect, are self-descriptive:

Atomic subclass
java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean
java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger
java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicIntegerArray
java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicIntegerFieldUpdater<T>
java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong ...
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