August 2011
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
6h 50m
English
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Examples and Performance Measurements
Most of the examples in this book are in Java; however, you will also see quite a few examples in Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, and Scala. I’ve taken extra effort to keep the syntactical nuances and the language-specific idioms to a minimum. Where there is a choice, I’ve leaned toward something that’s easier to read and familiar to programmers mostly comfortable with Java.
The following are the version of languages and libraries used in this book:
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Akka 1.1.3 (http://akka.io/downloads)
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Clojure 1.2.1 (http://clojure.org/downloads)
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Groovy 1.8 (http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download)
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GPars 0.12 (http://gpars.codehaus.org)
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Java SE 1.6 (http://www.java.com/en/download)
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JRuby 1.6.2 (http://jruby.org/download)
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Scala 2.9.0.1 ...
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