Showing posts with label Actors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Actors. Show all posts

Friday, July 10, 2009

Actors, Messages and Low Lock Contention for Java

Posted on http://www.ddj.com/go-parallel
Using actors and messages, concurrency is easier to understand. However, most developers don't want to learn a new programming language in order to use actors and messages. If you want to forget a bit about threads and locks, you can add nice actor support to an existing Java application using Jetlang.
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Thursday, July 2, 2009

A Domain-Specific Language to Let Groovy Go Parallel

Posted on http://www.ddj.com/go-parallel

Groovy is an agile dynamic language for the Java Platform. It runs on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). It supports Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs). Last week, GParallelizer 0.7 release added exciting intuitive ways to handle tasks, actors and message. Great news for the Groovy community in order to go parallel.

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