Creating An Asynchronous, Recursive DirectoryStream in Java 7

Tweet Continuing with my series on the Java 7 java.nio.file package, this time covering the DirectoryStream interface. In this post we are going implement our own DirectoryStream that will iterate over the files in an entire directory tree, not just a single directory. Our goal in the end is to have something that works similar [...]

Google Guava – Futures

Tweet This post is a continuation of my series on Google Guava, this time covering Futures. The Futures class is a collection of static utility methods for working with the Future/ListenableFuture interface. A Future is a handle to an asynchronous task, either a Runnable or Callable, that was submitted to an ExecutorService. The Future interface [...]

Google Guava Concurrency – ListenableFuture

Tweet In my last post I covered using the Monitor class from the com.google.common.util.concurrent package in the Guava Library. In this post I am going to continue my coverage of Guava concurrency utilities and discuss the ListenableFuture interface. A ListenableFuture extends the Future interface from the java.util.concurrent package, by adding a method that accepts a [...]

Google Guava – Synchronization with Monitor

Tweet The Google Guava project is a collection of libraries that every Java developer should become familiar with. The Guava libraries cover I/O, collections, string manipulation, and concurrency just to name a few. In this post I am going to cover the Monitor class. Monitor is a synchronization construct that can be used anywhere you [...]