Posts Tagged ‘ asynchronous ’

App Optimization – Asynchronous Pre-fetching Strategies

May 18th, 2010 | By | Category: architecture, design, Featured, optimization
This entry is part 3 of 9 in the series optimization

I remember perusing through an article on web services some time ago where the author  quips about the similarity between web services and teen sexuality. He said that in both cases, they talk more about it rather than do it and even if they do it they do it pretty bad. A similar comparison can [...]



Asynchronous Execution Wrapper

Feb 10th, 2008 | By | Category: design, java, optimization
This entry is part 8 of 9 in the series optimization

With the advent of Java 5 , asynchronous execution has become an easy thing to code. One has to be just grab hold of an ExecutorService from the java.util.concurrent library and start passing it a runnable. The only problem with this is that our class has to implement the Runnable interface which is not often [...]