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26 November 2015

This article covers lock waiting conditions in Java (java.util.concurrent.locks.Condition)

Locking conditions provide the ability for a given thread to wait for some arbitrary condition to happen while executing a critical section of code. In this context, a critical section is a section of... Read more

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Read/Write Locks in Java (ReentrantReadWriteLock)

18 October 2015

This article covers Read/Write locks in Java (ReentrantReadWriteLock implementation)

Read/Write locks - also known as Shared/Exclusive locks - are designed for use cases where an application allows simultaneous read access to some piece of data by multiple processes at the same time, ... Read more

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Locking in JPA (LockModeType)

30 August 2015

This article covers the optimistic and pessimistic locking mechanisms available in the Java Persistence API (using LockModeType)

Locking plays an important role in concurrent applications. The Java Persistence API provides distinct types of locking mechanisms that may be classified in a couple of major groups: pessimistic and o... Read more

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JPA entity versioning (@Version and Optimistic Locking)

29 July 2015

This article covers database optimistic locking in general and also demonstrates how to implement optimistic locking in Java Persistence API (JPA) entities by using the @Version annotation

Optimistic locking is a mechanism that prevents an application from being affected by the "lost update" phenomenon in a concurrent environment while allowing some high degree of concurrency ... Read more

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Java EE EJB concurrency (ConcurrencyManagement, Lock and LockType)

31 May 2015

This article will cover EJB concurrent access configuration (both container and bean managed) resorting to Lock, LockType and ConcurrencyManagement primitives.

Even though Stateless EJB's may never be concurrently accessed by more than a single client call, this article would be otherwise incomplete if it did not mention this kind of EJB's. Stateless EJB's a... Read more

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Java Lock example

18 December 2013

In this tutorial we will see how to synchronize access to shared resources using a Lock implementation in Java.

We have seen before in Java explicit lock example how to implement a lock using only the synchronized statement together with the wait/notify idiom. Since Java 5, several facilities became bundled wit... Read more

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Java volatile example

28 November 2013

In this tutorial we will see how to use the volatile keyword in Java.

The volatile keyword (or strictly speaking, the volatile modifier) means that a single variable is supposed to be accessed by multiple threads concurrently.In order to achieve significant performance ... Read more

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Java explicit lock example

17 November 2013

In this tutorial we will implement an explicit lock in Java using the synchronized statement together with the wait/notify idiom.

Before Java 5 - where the java.util.concurrent package concurrency facilities were introduced - we had to implement locking mechanisms from scratch. Even now when Java already offers a robust locking ... Read more

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