en-US Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:00:09 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 135434 Wrox Author Team 1861008139 Jack 2 4.00 2003
author: Wrox Author Team
name: Jack
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2003
rating: 2
read at: 2001/01/01
date added: 2011/01/05
shelves: development, java, professional, programming
review:
I'm generally not so happy with the wrox "Professional" series. The editing is minimal, and the author styles are varied, and mostly awkward. They tend (and this one's an extreme example) to read more like extended slash-dot posturing than wisdom or guidance.
]]> 1063703 628 David Flanagan 156592262X Jack 4 3.36 1996
author: David Flanagan
name: Jack
average rating: 3.36
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at: 2001/01/01
date added: 2011/01/05
shelves: development, java, professional, programming, reference, software
review:
Like all the O'Reilly Nutshell books, this is clear, helpful, and human. It's not a take-you-by-the-hand tutorial, but it's tutorial enough if you've already mastered a language or two, and it'll be well worth keeping on your shelf after you're trained and effective.
]]> 231292 146 Allan Vermeulen 0521777682 Jack 4 3.94 2000
author: Allan Vermeulen
name: Jack
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2010/12/22
shelves: programming, reference, java, style, professional
review:
Good treatment of a topic that, ideally, should be treated quickly yet well. Particularly handy as a basis for a team style standard ... "Vermeulen, but with all open-braces on their own lines" or like that.
]]> 127932 --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 very important book."
--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]]> 432 Brian Goetz 0321349601 Jack 4 4.47 2005
author: Brian Goetz
name: Jack
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2010/12/22
shelves: programming, software, engineering, java, professional
review:
This is a really crucial book for any Java developer. You may not realize you need it, but man oh man, you do![return][return]The Java culture and language development contain a trap: whereas it once was a commonplace that concurrent programming was too hard for "ordinary" developers, Java made it easy to do, and even in the beginning reasonably easy to do successfully.[return][return]Times have changed. Java programs used to run on uniprocessor machines (where "concurrency" is more an aspiration than a reality), and the Java virtual machine used to be relatively simple. Nowadays, even an inexpensive laptop has at least two cores, and can achieve real concurrency among half a dozen Java threads. The JVM has evolved aggressively to use this power, taking liberal advantage of feature always contained in the Java language specifications, but until now not necessary embodied in the JVM implementation. As a result, more and more, your programs do not mean what they appear to mean, and less and less are you free to presume they do.Fortunately, the principal and supporting authors here are the powerful minds behind the growth of the JVM's concurrency capabilities. And, a bit miraculously, these great minds, deeply embedded in this complex code, can and do explain its surprises and mastery in a way that should be accessible to any competent programmer. This is not "for Dummies" stuff, but it's also "not rocket science" (quite). You can handle this.[return][return]And, you must.
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