Chapter 16. CompletableFuture: composable asynchronous programming
This chapter covers
- Creating an asynchronous computation and retrieving its result
- Increasing throughput by using nonblocking operations
- Designing and implementing an asynchronous API
- Consuming asynchronously a synchronous API
- Pipelining and merging two or more asynchronous operations
- Reacting to the completion of an asynchronous operation
Chapter 15 explored the modern concurrency context: that multiple processing resources (CPU cores and the like) are available, and you want your programs to exploit as many of these resources as possible in a high-level manner (rather than litter your programs with ill-structured, unmaintainable operations on threads). We noted that parallel ...
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