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Concurrent Collections
Trail: Essential Java Classes
Lesson: Concurrency
Section: High Level Concurrency Objects

Concurrent Collections

The java.util.concurrent package includes a number of additions to the Java Collections Framework. These are most easily categorized by the collection interfaces provided:

All of these collections help avoid Memory Consistency Errors by defining a happens-before relationship between an operation that adds an object to the collection with subsequent operations that access or remove that object.


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