BlockingQueue In Java

November 13, 2015 by Sandeep Bhardwaj | Tags: Concurrency

public interface BlockingQueue extends Queue

A BlockingQueue provides additionally functionality

• wait for the queue to become non-empty when retrieving an element.
• wait for space to become available in the queue when storing an element.

Implementing Classes:

There are 7 implemented classed of BlockingQueue

1. ArrayBlockingQueue
2. DelayQueue
3. ArrayBlockingQueue
4. LinkedBlockingDeque
5. LinkedTransferQueue
6. PriorityBlockingQueue
7. SynchronousQueue