Lock-free and wait-free concurrency

[David Van Couvering]

I was looking to see if "++" was atomic (as I suspected it's not) and I 
found this very interesting article from the Blue Guys about 
java.util.concurrent.atomic in JDK 1.5.  I am not an expert in locking, 
but this looked very interesting.  Has anybody looked at this?  Could 
Derby take advantage of this?

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp11234/
David