Chapter 10
Exploring Additional Utility APIs
In Chapter 10 I continue to explore Java’s utility APIs by introducing Concurrency Utilities, the Date class (for representing time), the Formatter class (for formatting data items), the Random class (for generating random numbers), the Scanner class (for parsing an input stream of characters into integers, strings, and other values), and the APIs for working with ZIP and JAR files.
Exploring the Concurrency Utilities
Java 5 introduced Concurrency Utilities whose classes and interfaces simplify the development of concurrent (multithreaded) applications, and which were extended by Java 6. These types are located in the java.util.concurrent package and in its java.util.concurrent.atomic and java.util.concurrent.locks ...
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