Comments on: JavaOne: Brian Goetz on concurrency in Java 7

By: Alex Miller - JavaOne: Neal Gafter on Closures

Alex Miller - JavaOne: Neal Gafter on Closures — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:35:30 +0000

[...] Neal quickly got into talking about aggregate operations over collections, which dovetailed very well with Brian Goetz’s talk yesterday on fork-join. These work on an array/list/map and provide operations like sort, filter, map, reduce, fold, etc. Basically a functional approach. The nice thing is that these can be automatically parallelized if you abstract it properly. [...]

By: Sun RIA: JavaFX Announced « Tales from a Trading Desk

Sun RIA: JavaFX Announced « Tales from a Trading Desk — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:09:48 +0000

[...] Sun RIA: JavaFX Announced Sun announces JavaFX @ JavaOne 2008. JavaFX Script is a declarative language which will have its own runtime engine. Thus I expect in the future (2009?) every browser will have 3 plug-ins as standard – Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX. [...]

By: henk

henk — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:16:47 +0000

This is a really good idea. Quad cores are out there for nothing and Hex + Octa cores are just around the corning. Not every load consists out of a lot of small requests. Programmers are wasting cycles because of the assumption that an increasing amount of individual requests will ‘automatically’ take advantage of the multiple cores in some server.

With this API, it will become far easier to parallelize work that needs to be done for a single request.

By: Casper Bang

Casper Bang — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:04:00 +0000

“…don’t have to wait till Java 7, whatever decade that arrives in.”

Next summer we were told… unless you run Apple, in which case I guess you must add 18 months. Anyway interesting stuff, I guess we can expect an updated edition of Java Concurrency in Practice.