Go channels provide synchronization and messaging, 'select' provides multi-way concurrent control.
Rob Pike - Concurrency is not parallelism / another link with better slide view
This is one of Java ports of Go channels. The idea of this particular port is to match as much as possible the features provided by GoLang so channels can be used for concurrency coordination. The library uses locks, conditional variables and semaphores as underlying concurrency primitives so the performance is not expected to match applications written in Go.
There is also a sibling project - channels for Scala: https://github.com/yruslan/channel_scala
The project hasn't been released yet.
GoLang channels are based on CSP model by Tony Hoare (1978). CSP channels provide an extremely simple and uniform building block for designing concurrent applications.