Concurrent Collections

In this article, we will understand the Java concurrent queue, BlockingQueue. We will then go deep into it’s one of the implementation, ArrayBlockingQueue. What is BlockingQueue BlockingQueue interface was introduced in Java 5 under concurrent APIs and it represents a thread-safe queue in which elements can be added to and removed from. We can have […]

In this post, we will see how to create your own custom BlockingQueue. This is one of the most asked java interview questions. You need to implement your own BlockingQueue. This question helps interviewer to get your understanding of multithreading concepts. Here is simple implementation of BlockingQueue. We will use array to store elements in […]

BlockingQueue is introduced in java with concurrent package with ConcurrentHashMap. It is thread safe queue to put and take elements from it. BlockingQueue is special type of queue which is used when one thread produces object and another thread consumes it. Producer thread will keep inserting objects to queue until it reaches upper limit. Once […]