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<title>JSR 166 Introduction.</title> |
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<h1>JSR 166 Community Review Draft Introduction.</h1> |
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<h1>JSR 166 Introduction.</h1> |
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by <a href="http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl">Doug Lea</a> |
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To chack for updates to this draft, access a preliminary prototype |
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release of main functionality, or join a mailing list discussing this |
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JSR, go to: <A |
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This is the updated JSR166 specification. For further information, go |
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to: <A |
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HREF="http://altair.cs.oswego.edu/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-interest"> |
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http://altair.cs.oswego.edu/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-interest</A> |
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<em> <b>Disclaimer</b>. The prototype implementation is experimental |
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code developed as part of JCP JSR-166 is made available to the |
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developer community for use as-is. It is not a supported product. Use |
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it at your own risk. The specification, language and implementation |
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are subject to change as a result of your feedback. Because these |
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features have not yet been approved for addition to the Java language, |
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there is no schedule for their inclusion in a product. </em> |
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<p> <em> <b>Disclaimer</b>. This draft specification was produced |
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using JDK1.4 tools plus some preprocessing. The resulting javadocs do |
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not yet correctly render other planned JDK1.5 constructs on which |
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JSR-166 relies, most notably the use of generic types. We are |
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releasing this version now (before the availability of JDK1.5-based |
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tools) because, even though they are misformatted and sometimes lack |
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proper cross-referencing, they otherwise convey the intended |
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specifications. </em> |
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http://altair.cs.oswego.edu/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-interest</A>. |
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<p><em>Note: The javadocs here includes some existing java.util |
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Collection interfaces and classes that are not part of the JSR-166 |
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spec, but are included because JSR-166 methods implement or inherit |
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from their specifications.</em> |
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<p> JSR-166 introduces package <tt>java.util.concurrent</tt> |
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containing utility classes commonly useful in concurrent |
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programming. Like package <tt>java.util</tt>, it includes a few small |
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standardized extensible frameworks, as well as some classes that |
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standardized extensible frameworks, as well as other classes that |
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provide useful functionality and are otherwise tedious or difficult to |
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implement. |
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pools. This diversity reflects the range of contexts in which |
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developers of concurrent programs have been found to require or desire |
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support not previously available in J2SE, which also keeping the |
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resulting package small; providing only that minimial support for |
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which it makes sense to standardize. |
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resulting package small; providing only functionality that has been |
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found to be worthwhile to standardize. |
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<p>Descriptions and brief motivations for the main components may be |
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found in the associated package documentation. JSR-166 also includes |
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<h2>Threads</h2> |
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Two minor changes are introduced to the {@link java.lang.Thread} |
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class: It now allows per-thread installation of handlers for uncaught |
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exceptions. Ths optionally disassociates handlers from ThreadGroups, |
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which has proven to be too inflexible. (Note that the combination of |
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features in JSR-166 make ThreadGroups even less likely to be used in |
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most programs. Perhaps they will eventually be deprecated.) Secondly, |
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access checks are no longer required when a Thread interrupts |
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<em>itself</em>. The <tt>interrupt</tt> method is the only way to |
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re-assert a thread's interruption status (and in the case of |
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self-interruption has no other effect than this). The check here |
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previously caused unjustifiable and uncontrollable failures when |
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restricted code invoked library code that must reassert interruption |
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to correctly propagate status when encountering some |
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<tt>InterruptedExceptions</tt>. |
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Three minor changes are introduced to the {@link java.lang.Thread} |
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class: |
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<li> It now allows per-thread installation of handlers for uncaught |
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exceptions. Ths optionally disassociates handlers from ThreadGroups, |
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which has proven to be too inflexible. (Note that the combination of |
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features in JSR-166 make ThreadGroups even less likely to be used in |
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most programs. Perhaps they will eventually be deprecated.) |
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<li> Access checks are no longer required when a Thread interrupts |
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<em>itself</em>. The <tt>interrupt</tt> method is the only way to |
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re-assert a thread's interruption status (and in the case of |
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self-interruption has no other effect than this). The check here |
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previously caused unjustifiable and uncontrollable failures when |
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restricted code invoked library code that must reassert interruption |
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to correctly propagate status when encountering some |
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<tt>InterruptedExceptions</tt>. |
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<li> The <tt>destroy</tt> method, which has never been implemented, |
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has finally been deprecated. This is just a spec change, reflecting |
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the fact that that the reason it has never been implemented is that |
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it was undesirable and unworkable. |
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<h2>Timing</h2> |
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<address><A HREF="http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl">Doug Lea</A></address> |
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