Is "Java Concurrency In Practice" still valid?

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M-D picture M-D · Apr 18, 2012 · Viewed 91.8k times · Source

Is Java Concurrency in Practice still valid? I am wondering whether the ideas, concepts and implementation described in the book are still compliant with the latest Java versions.

I ask because the latest edition was done in 2006.

Answer

Brian Goetz picture Brian Goetz · Apr 18, 2012

While my perspective may be biased, my current intention for updating the book would be almost strictly additive, covering fork-join, parallel decomposition, and the new parallel bulk data operations coming in Java SE 8.

EDIT 2020: ... and Project Loom.

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