January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
282 pages
7h 4m
English
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Concurrency
More classes are defined in the java.util.concurrent.atomic and java.util.concurrent.locks packages. The java.util.concurrent.atomic package contains the following classes:
- AtomicBoolean
- AtomicInteger
- AtomicIntegerArray
- AtomicIntegerFieldUpdater (abstract)
- AtomicLong
- AtomicLongArray
- AtomicLongFieldUpdater (abstract)
- AtomicMarkableReference
- AtomicReference
- AtomicReferenceArray
- AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater (abstract)
- AtomicStampedReference
Most of these classes require little explanation as they simply define methods to update values atomically. For example, the AtomicInteger class defines the addAndGet() method, which adds a given value to the current value of the AtomicInteger object while returning the updated value. The abstract ...