ExecutorService — Creating Threads with ExecutorService We covered in part I of this article what Threads are in Java, how we create them, what a Task is and the differences between using Callable and Runnable interfaces. Let us dive a bit deeper in the Concurrency API in which Java introduced the ExecutorService, which helps us create…

What is a Thread ? — Thread is the smallest unit of execution that can be scheduled by the OS. What is a Task? A task is a single unit of work performed by a Thread. But then how do we define this work (or create a task for a thread)? A common way is to use a Runnable Interface…

No matter which industry you work in, how often have you been recognised for your contributions due to the factor that you are the only person in your team with the knowledge of the product or how certain tasks are accomplished. It is the knowledge that you and only you…

A major feature introduced to developers in Java 8 is language-level support for lambda expressions. In a previous article, I gave a high-level overview of Lambda expressions in Java What we want to avoid when using Lambda expressions is a feature introduced in Java 5 called Autoboxing and Unboxing. When…

Lambda Expression? Implements a Functional Interface (if you read somewhere that it’s a way of writing instances of Anonymous classes — wipe out that definition — it is wrong) But…then what is a Functional Interface? an interface in Java (obviously) but has a single abstract method (SAM) default and static methods of an interface do not count when…