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The shift toward multicore processing has fueled an interest in concurrent programming models like fork/join, actors, agents, and executors. While these models originated within different programming languages, many of them are encapsulated in GPars, a Groovy-based concurrency library. With Alex Miller as your guide, learn how to resolve concurrency problems using techniques drawn from both the functional and object-oriented programming worlds — and do it all using Groovy's familiar, Java-friendly syntax.

The "gateway drug" to Scala for many, if not most, Java programmers is the promise of easier coding when dealing with concurrency and writing thread-safe code. In this installment of the The busy Java developer's guide to Scala, Ted Neward begins to dive into the various concurrency features and libraries provided by the Scala language and environment.