The Quest for Parallellism: How To 'upgrade' Your Application

Track: Core

Target audience: Intermediate/Advanced

Prerequisite: Basic Java Threading topics

Language: English or Dutch

Abstract:
In today’s world, multicore systems are no longer exclusively available to those with a big wallet. Designing and building applications that exploit parallelism has rapidly become a required skill for mainstream developers.
 
In this session, you will be given a brief look at the current state of parallelism in Java and how you can utilize this in your applications. However, the focus will not be on Java's threading constructs. Instead you will be presented with a practical approach for increasing your application's scalability.
 
If your current application is experiencing the limits of its throughput, then the notion of task modeling may be just what you need. Forget about threads, let others worry about them for you.

Basic layout of the presentation: 
* Current trends in Java parallelism
   * Changes in Java 6, and Java 7
   * Cloudcomputing
 * Task modeling
   * What is it?
   * Going from threads to pools
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 * Upgrading your application - The easy picks
   * Logging
   * Document generation
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Jan-Hendrik Kuperus  Sogeti Jan-Hendrik is a Technology Specialist Java and coach for the Java Education Center. His background in teaching programming skills to students has made him passionate about sharing knowledge. Combine that with a limitless thirst for things which are new and exciting and you get a coach that usually has fresh ideas for any project. Jan-Hendrik has a Master's degree in theoretical computer science and continues to be especially interested by complex engineering issues and algorithms. No technical challenge is too much for him. Since the release of JavaFX 1.3, Jan-Hendrik has successfully pushed the technology into several projects and he is currently developing a distributed application that visualizes logistic scenarios in the transport business.