Focuses on the design and implementation of the concurrency features added to the Java platform in Java 5.0 and Java 6. This title is suitable for Java developers.
As processors become faster and multiprocessor systems become cheaper, the
need to take advantage of multithreading in order to achieve full hardware
resource utilization only increases the importance of being able to incorporate
concurrency in a wide variety of application categories. For many developers,
concurrency remains a mystery. Developing, testing and debugging
multithreaded programs is extremely difficult because concurrency hazards do
not manifest themselves uniformly or reliably. This book is intended to be
neither an introduction to concurrency (any threading chapter in an intro
book does that) nor is it an encyclopedic reference of All Things Concurrency
(that would be Doug Lea's Concurrent Programming in Java). Instead, this title
is a combination of concepts, guidelines, and examples intended to assist
developers in the difficult process of understanding concurrency and its new
tools in J2SE 5.0. Filled with contributions from Java gurus such as Josh Bloch,
David Holmes and Doug Lea, this book provides any Java programmers with
the basic building blocks they need to gain a basic understanding of
concurrency and its benefits.
