Java 9 Data Structures and Algorithms

Producer-consumer model

A producer-consumer model is a design that divides processing into small components that send messages to other components. One produces a message and the other consumes and acts on it. It provides an abstraction to easily implement an application optimized to utilize all the resources. A producer-consumer model starts with a queue of messages. Producers publish messages in this queue and consumers receive them. This queue is different from the queues we have studied so far in a few ways. We want this queue to be thread-safe, which is required for the queue to work correctly in a multithreaded environment. We do not need to worry about the exact order of the messages being dequeued. After all, the order of messages does ...