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Java Concurrency in Practice
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Chapter 6: Task Execution
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"I was fortunate indeed to have worked with a fantastic team on the design
and implementation of the concurrency features added to the Java platform in
Java 5.0 and Java 6. Now this same team provides the best explanation yet of
these new features, and of concurrency in general. Concurrency is no longer
a subject for advanced users only. Every Java developer should read this book."
--Martin Buchholz
JDK Concurrency Czar, Sun Microsystems
"For the past 30 years, computer performance has been driven by Moore's Law;
from now on, it will be driven by Amdahl's Law. Writing code that effectively
exploits multiple processors can be very challenging. Java Concurrency
in Practice provides you with the concepts and techniques needed to
write safe and scalable Java programs for today's--and tomorrow's--systems."
--Doron Rajwan
Research Scientist, Intel Corp
"This is the book you need if you're writing--or designing, or debugging, or
maintaining, or contemplating--multithreaded Java programs. If you've ever had
to synchronize a method and you weren't sure why, you owe it to yourself and
your users to read this book, cover to cover."
--Ted Neward
Author of Effective Enterprise Java
"Brian addresses the fundamental issues and complexities of concurrency with
uncommon clarity. This book is a must-read for anyone who uses threads and cares
about performance."
--Kirk Pepperdine
CTO, JavaPerformanceTuning.com
"This book covers a very deep and subtle topic in a very clear and concise
way, making it the perfect Java Concurrency reference manual. Each page is filled
with the problems (and solutions!) that programmers struggle with every day.
Effectively exploiting concurrency is becoming more and more important now that
Moore's Law is delivering more cores but not faster cores, and this book will
show you how to do it."
--Dr. Cliff Click
Senior Software Engineer, Azul Systems
"I have a strong interest in concurrency, and have probably written more thread
deadlocks and made more synchronization mistakes than most programmers. Brian's
book is the most readable on the topic of threading and concurrency in Java,
and deals with this difficult subject with a wonderful hands-on approach. This
is a book I am recommending to all my readers of The Java Specialists' Newsletter,
because it is interesting, useful, and relevant to the problems facing Java
developers today."
--Dr. Heinz Kabutz
The Java Specialists' Newsletter
"I've focused a career on simplifying simple problems, but this book ambitiously
and effectively works to simplify a complex but critical subject: concurrency.
Java Concurrency in Practice is revolutionary in its approach,
smooth and easy in style, and timely in its delivery--it's destined to be a
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--Bruce Tate
Author of Beyond Java
"Java Concurrency in Practice is an invaluable compilation of
threading know-how for Java developers. I found reading this book intellectually
exciting, in part because it is an excellent introduction to Java's concurrency
API, but mostly because it captures in a thorough and accessible way expert
knowledge on threading not easily found elsewhere."
--Bill Venners
Author of Inside the Java Virtual Machine
Threads are a fundamental part of the Java platform. As multicore processors
become the norm, using concurrency effectively becomes essential for building
high-performance applications. Java SE 5 and 6 are a huge step forward for the
development of concurrent applications, with improvements to the Java Virtual
Machine to support high-performance, highly scalable concurrent classes and
a rich set of new concurrency building blocks. In Java Concurrency in
Practice, the creators of these new facilities explain not only how
they work and how to use them, but also the motivation and design patterns behind
them.
However, developing, testing, and debugging multithreaded programs can still
be very difficult; it is all too easy to create concurrent programs that appear
to work, but fail when it matters most: in production, under heavy load. Java
Concurrency in Practice arms readers with both the theoretical underpinnings
and concrete techniques for building reliable, scalable, maintainable concurrent
applications. Rather than simply offering an inventory of concurrency APIs and
mechanisms, it provides design rules, patterns, and mental models that make
it easier to build concurrent programs that are both correct and performant.
This book covers:
- Basic concepts of concurrency and thread safety
- Techniques for building and composing thread-safe classes
- Using the concurrency building blocks in java.util.concurrent
- Performance optimization dos and don'ts
- Testing concurrent programs
- Advanced topics such as atomic variables, nonblocking algorithms, and the
Java Memory Model
About the Authors
Brian Goetz is a software consultant with twenty years industry experience,
with over 75 articles on Java development. He is one of the primary members
of the Java Community Process JSR 166 Expert Group (Concurrency Utilities),
and has served on numerous other JCP Expert Groups.
Joshua Bloch is a Principal Engineer at Google. Previously he was a
Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and a Senior Systems Designer at
Transarc. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features,
including the JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the Java Collections Framework.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University and a B.S.
in Computer Science from Columbia University.
Joseph Bowbeer is a software architect at Vizrea Corporation where he
specializes in mobile application development for the Java ME platform, but
his fascination with concurrent programming began in his days at Apollo Computer.
He served on the JCP Expert Group for JSR-166 (Concurrency Utilities).
David Holmes is a Senior Research Scientist at the Cooperative Research
Centre for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC Pty Ltd), located
in Brisbane, Australia. His work with Java technology has focused on concurrency
and synchronization support in the language and virtual machine. He has presented
tutorials on concurrency and design at numerous international object-oriented
programming conferences. He completed his PhD at Macquarie University, Sydney,
in 1999.
Doug Lea is one of the foremost experts on object-oriented technology
and software reuse. He has been doing collaborative research with Sun Labs for
more than five years. Lea is Professor of Computer Science at SUNY Oswego, Co-director
of the Software Engineering Lab at the New York Center for Advanced Technology
in Computer Applications, and Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Syracuse University. In addition, he co-authored the book, Object-Oriented
System Development (Addison-Wesley, 1993). He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.
from the University of New Hampshire.
Tim Peierls is the very model of a modern multiprocessor, with BoxPop.biz,
recording arts, and goings on theatrical. He is one of the primary members of
the Java Community Process JSR 166 Expert Group (Concurrency Utilities), and
has served on numerous other JCP Expert Groups.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Jun 13, 2008
Very well done
In the internet age, information is everywhere, which makes trying to find what you are looking for very difficult.
This book does a great job at giving information and showing examples (which help me the most).
I buy several books a year, but I'm more often disappointed than satisfied. I am definitely satisfied with this one.
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