Package java.util.concurrent
JDK 1.5 introduced several new packages and a couple of dozen new classes to beef up support for threads and thread-based systems. These are centered around package java.util.concurrent. In one sentence, the goal is “to do for threads what java.util.Collection did for data structures”. Namely, provide a central, consistent, “bullet-proof” way of expressing best practices, so that programmers no longer need to create them by hand for each new problem.
You can view the concurrent package as a set of design patterns implemented for Java threads (if design patterns are new to you, we mention the basics in the next ...
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