Authored by Doug Lea, JDK Enhancement Proposal 188 would update the Java Memory Model for concurrency support on multicore processors.

With the recent announcement of JEP 188: Java Memory Model Update, now seems like a good time to brush up on what you know about the JMM.

Terracotta extends the Java Memory Model of a single JVM to include a cluster of virtual machines such that threads on one virtual machine can interact with threads on another virtual machine as if ...

The Java memory model guarantees the same visibility semantics for exiting of synchronized regions as it does for volatile memory operations, so we should expect to see another memory barrier.

The "tip and tail" release model represents a significant step forward, offering revolutionary changes that are ambitious but not without challenges.

However, no programming language is perfect, and while the number of Java disadvantages are few, there are some Java platform drawbacks. Java disadvantages Here are the most significant Java ...