What is Blocking Deque in Java? How and When to use BlockingDeque? Example Tutorial

Hello friends, we meet again here today on our journey to Java. Before we continue forward, let me inform you guys that today's topic is in continuation of our Java Deque topic. If any of you guys have not read the Java Deque tutorial, go ahead and read that one first. Though there is no such limitation of this article, it is recommended to have gone through the basics of Deque and our previous post. So, I guess now we will continue our Deque topic and today we will discuss something very interesting. Today we are gonna jump into the advanced topic of Deque and how we can leverage the functionality Java has provided for a better and more robust application building.

Java CountDownLatch Example for Beginners - [Multithreading Tutorial]

Hello Java programmers, the CountDownLatch is an important concurrency utility class that was added in JDK 1.5 to facilitate inter-thread communication without using wait and notify methods, but unfortunately, many Java developers still struggle to understand and use this powerful tool. In this article, you will learn what is CountDownLatch and how to use it to write better concurrent applications in Java. You can use the CountDownLatch if you are spawning multiple threads to do different jobs and want to know when exactly all tasks are finished so that you can move to the next stage. In other words, you can block a thread until other threads complete their task. 

Java CyclicBarrier Example for Beginners [Multithreading Tutorial]

This is the second part of my concurrency tutorial, in the first part, you have learned how to use CountDownLatch and in this part, you will learn how to use CyclicBarrier class in Java. CyclicBarrier is another concurrency utility introduced in Java 5 which is used when a number of threads (also known as parties) want to wait for each other at a common point, also known as the barrier before starting processing again. It's similar to the CountDownLatch but instead of calling countDown() each thread calls await() and when the last thread calls await() which signals that it has reached the barrier, all threads started processing again, also known as a barrier is broken.