JEP-171: Fence Intrisics Keep Memory In Line December 03, 2012·3 mins Doug Lea has proposed to promote memory fencing mechanics into implementation APIs in Java. I cover what this means.
JEP-155: New Concurrency Utils Part 1 - Atomically Delicious November 18, 2012·9 mins Another batch of concurrency utilities is in the pipeline for Java as JEP-155. This is part one of a short summary of what is planned.