I am a little bit confused as to what the difference is between BlockingQueue/LinkedBlockingQueue and the new TransferQueue/LinkedTransferQueue types from jsr166y and java 7

From the Java AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater docs: Note that the guarantees of the compareAndSet method in this class are weaker than in other atomic classes. Because this class cannot ensure tha...

Under the default security manager, if I create an ExecutorService (ThreadPoolExecutor in this case), I cannot shut it down, shutdown() just calls checkPermission("modifyThread") and thus immediate...

Brian Goetz's wrote a nice article on fork-join at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp03048.html. In it, he lists a merge sort algorithm using the fork-join mechanism, in which he ...