Concurrency Without Pain in Pure Java

Programming concurrency has turned into a Herculean task. This session's speaker calls the traditional approach the "synchronize and suffer model." Fortunately, there are other approaches to concurrency and you can reach out to those directly from your Java code. This presentation discusses actor-based concurrency and software transaction memory. It then develops examples with Akka and compares the power of these approaches with the traditional approach.

Copyright © 2013 Oracle and/or its affiliates. Oracle® is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle disclaims any warranties or representations as to the accuracy or completeness of this recording, demonstration, and/or written materials (the "Materials"). The Materials are provided "as is" without any warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.