Brian Goetz, Sun Microsystems

Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for 20 years. He is the author of over 75 articles on software development, and his book, Java Concurrency In Practice, was published in May 2006 by Addison-Wesley.

He serves on the JCP Expert Groups for JSRs 166 (concurrency utilities), 107 (caching), and 305 (annotations for safety analysis). He is a frequent presenter at JavaOne, OOPSLA, JavaPolis, SDWest, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Tour. Brian is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems.

Presentation: "Concurrency, past and present"

Track: Java in Action

Time: Wednesday 14:30 - 15:30

Location: City

Abstract:

With the widespread availability of cheap multi-core processors, concurrency is more important than ever for utilizing the hardware resources available to an application.

However, writing safe and performant concurrent code is difficult, and requires a more rigorous design, development, and testing approach in order to produce reliable results.

In this presentation, we'll look at several programming models for concurrency, contrast them with the shared-state model that is dominant today, and draw some lessons that can help us write better concurrent programs in Java.

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