-This is an updated version of the specification submitted for JCP Public -Review. To check for further updates, access a preliminary prototype -release of main functionality, or join a mailing list discussing -JSR-166, go to: http://altair.cs.oswego.edu/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-interest. -
Note: The javadocs here includes some existing java.util -Collection interfaces and classes that are not part of the JSR-166 -spec, but are included because JSR-166 methods implement or inherit -from their specifications. +
Note: The javadocs here do not include pre-existing +java classes (for example java.lang.Thread) that were changed +as part of the JSR166 spec. On the other hand, the javadocs here do +include some existing java.util Collection interfaces and classes that +are not part of the spec, but are included because some new methods +implement or inherit from their specifications. +
JSR-166 introduces package java.util.concurrent containing utility classes commonly useful in concurrent programming. Like package java.util, it includes a few small -standardized extensible frameworks, as well as some classes that +standardized extensible frameworks, as well as other classes that provide useful functionality and are otherwise tedious or difficult to implement. @@ -37,8 +38,8 @@ data structures, to high-level execution pools. This diversity reflects the range of contexts in which developers of concurrent programs have been found to require or desire support not previously available in J2SE, which also keeping the -resulting package small; providing only functionality that it makes -sense to standardize. +resulting package small; providing only functionality that has been +found to be worthwhile to standardize.
Descriptions and brief motivations for the main components may be found in the associated package documentation. JSR-166 also includes