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Concurrent Programming in Java(TM): Design Principles and Pattern (2nd Edition) (Java Series)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (1999-11-04)
ISBN: 0201310090
EAN: 9780201310092
UPC: 785342310092
Dewey Decimal #: 005.2752
Paperback: 432 pages
Edition: 2
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
*One of Java's most powerful capabilities is its built-in support for concurrent programming, a design technique in which multiple concurrent activities-threads take place inside a single Java program. Thread programming enables developers to design applications that are more responsive to user demands, faster, and more easily controlled. *This book offers comprehensive coverage of this vital aspect of the Java language. The book is completely up-to-date with the new thread model that is now incorporated into the most recent version of the Java Virtual Machine. All Java programmers interested in doing concurrent programming must understand these new concepts. The book approaches the topic from a design pattern point of view. It introduces and summarizes Java's concurrency support, shows readers how to initiate, control, and coordinate concurrent activities, and offers numerous recipe-like techniques for designing and implementing Java structures that solve common concurrent programming challenges.Specifically, the book presents important strategies for avoiding the inconsistencies that can crop up in multi-threaded programs, addresses the concept of "liveness"-how to ensure that all threads in use are kept active simultaneously, examines state-dependent action, and demonstrates effective methods for handling user requests in a multi-threaded environment.
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Amazon.com Review
Concurrent Programming in Java, 2nd Edition surveys a wide field of research in parallelism and concurrency and shows how to do more with multithreading in Java with dozens of patterns and design tips. Written for the advanced Java developer, this book offers a comprehensive tour of leading-edge thinking about parallel coding processes. Within the dozens of techniques and tips offered here, this book accomplishes at least two goals. First, it shows how concurrency is implemented by default within Java, with material on how built-in features (like the synchronized keyword and its memory model) can be expected to perform when dealing with multiple threads. Naturally, Java threads themselves are also covered, including priorities, scheduling, and the like. Much of this book looks at ways to improve performance of concurrent code beyond the simple default strategies. After defining criteria for measuring concurrent code (such as safety and "liveness," a measure of running live threads effectively), the book presents dozens of techniques for letting threads work together safely. For the working Java programmer, coverage of patterns that have been implemented in the downloadable java.concurrency package will be the most immediately useful. (Within this nearly encyclopedic survey, short code snippets are used for every pattern and concept.) Though theoretical at times, this book offers plenty of ideas and sample code to get you started thinking of ways to improve multithreaded code. Impressively comprehensive, Concurrent Programming in Java offers a veritable bible of techniques for doing two things at once with threads in Java. It's a worthwhile guide to the state-of-the-art strategies for improving the performance of your Java threads. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: Threads and concurrency in Java, design considerations (safety, liveness, and performance), Before/After Patterns, layering, adapters, immutability and synchronization, deadlock, resource ordering, the Java Memory Model and concurrency, using the java.concurrency package, confinement, refactoring for concurrency, mutexes, read-write locks, recovering from failure, notifications, semaphores, latches, exchanges, transactions, one-way messages, worker threads, polling and event-driven I/O, parallelism techniques (fork/join, computation trees, and barriers), Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP).
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Customer Reviews
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Too Theoretical
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-10-23
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The book contains a lot of concurrent and parallel programming theories, but the organization of the contents is not well formed, such that the reading and understanding of the book are hard. The examples giving in the book are not very helpful either.
Overall, the book seems to target for academic researchers rather than developers. Highly recommend "Java Concurrency In Practice" which is much more practical and easier understood by Brian Goetz
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5 for knowledge; 0 for the writing -> 2.5 -> 2
Rating  (2)
Date: 2006-04-19
8 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
Sure he knows his stuff but doesn't have a clue on how to write. This is appallingly poorly written. It is one of the most ridiculously disorganized collections of academic 'verbage' (verbiage subsumes garbage) I have ever read. It's almost useless as a reference: its very non-linear (say non-deterministic almost) in concept elucidation (perhaps he's taken the notion of multithreading too much to heart and tried multi-threaded writing???). It's useless as a book to learn from- since learning by example is not just a way to learn, but the only way to learn (Einstein) and this book largely disavows examples.
What it needs is another edition with a ghost writer. Seriously it's not good. Try Paul Hyde for a good intro to threads.
While those at guru-ish level may love this book, those of us for whom threads represent a means to an end, not an end in and of themselves, would probably want to throw this book in frustration of the author's inability to structure a coherent sentence with a clear point. This meanders on like great uncle herb's war stories and is equally will sapping.
Avoid if you can or check it out when you reach guru-ness. It's a good cure for insomnia though.
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If you want to program concurency in Java you need this book
Rating (3)
Date: 2006-01-16
0 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a kind of book you'll need to start developing concurrent systems in Java. It shows details of what should be done to safely handle patterns for concurrent programs.
I beleive this book is a must for every developer who want to start learning concurrency design priciples for Java.
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Great Threaded Programming Information for More than Java
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-01-09
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is the best book I have ever read on threading, and certainly applies well to other languages naturally (especially languages with a modern and mature thread library like Mono/.NET). Unlike other reviewers here, I encourage so-called "beginners" to read this book. He has plenty of examples so you will not get lost, and this *is* the right way to do things, so start with this one.
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Will make you a better programmer, but not for beginners.
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-10-30
7 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is great but don't read it as your first introduction to Java threads.
This book is not about Java threads per se, but more about design patterns and good object oriented programming practices as applied to concurrent programming (hence the title). Doug Lea is a university professor and this book has a very academic style, including a ton of references to an impressive array of concurrency and object oriented research. While this makes the material somewhat dense, it is very thorough and thankfully supplemented by actual code snippets (Doug Lea also makes significant contributions to the Java SDK and writes great code).
Especially notable are the sections on semaphores and locking in general. Users of util.concurrent (which directly supplements this book), and even the new Java 5.0 concurrency utilities (which were written by Lea and company), will get tremendous value out of these chapters as the locking strategies form the backbone of the higher level classes found in those packages.
For beginners, read "Java Thread Programming" by Paul Hyde, and then try this book.
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