Bug#294540: ITP: concurrent -- utility classes for concurrent java programming

[Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Wolfgang Baer wrote:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
>   Package name    : concurrent
>   Version         : 1.3.4
>   Upstream Author : Doug Lea <dl@cs.oswego.edu>
>   URL             : http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl
>   License         : Public domain
>   Description     : utility classes for concurrent java programming
>
> The concurrent java library provides standardized, efficient versions of
> utility classes commonly encountered in concurrent Java programming.
> Discussions of the rationale and applications of several of these
> classes can be found in the second edition of Concurrent Programming in Java.
>
> The package mainly consists of implementations of a few interfaces:
>
>  * Sync -- locks, conditions
>  * Channel -- queues, buffers
>  * Barrier -- multi-party synchronization
>  * SynchronizedVariable -- atomic ints, refs etc
>  * java.util.Collection -- collections
>  * Executor -- replacements for direct use of Thread
>
> Plus some utilities and frameworks that build upon these.

How does this fit in with java 1.5(from sun, non-free of course), but what
about kaffe/gcj/sablevm?