 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | "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 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 |
Average Customer Rating:  Surpasses all expectations! This book is really great. It briefly explains basics while not stick to them, continues with useful hi-api classes for everyday usage and ends with advanced topics.. There are many examples of good and bad concurrency snippets which makes things even clearer. This book is definitely not a concurrent API summarization - it on the other hand explains why, what and how to do things and why no to do them otherwise.. This book gives you very good awareness of concurrency in any language but it is purely Java oriented.
If you are afraid of concurrency as of some monster (as I was) then this book will open your eyes and gives you enough confidence to make correct concurrency programs. If you program in Java read this book now If you program in Java you need to read this book. Even if you don't program in Java, 70% of this book holds true for non Java development too. Mr Goetz is clear, concise and will teach you how to program today's software applications correctly. Or at least defensively with an eye towards being performant.
I come from the embedded system realm where most of what Mr Goetz talks about, at least in theory, is second nature. However in Java, second nature for c/c++ doesn't mean you know how to do the same things in Java. Mr Goetz will get you there. From locking, to local copies, to shared spaces to Java specific executors - Mr Goetz covers it all. What I particularly enjoyed was his section on performance. Too often, when writing concurrent code, one tends to over protect. In Java Concurrency we are taught how to gain performance and still be safe. To say that the concept of scaling was well covered would be an understatement.
Quite frankly, this is one of the best programming books I've ever read. Up there with Code Complete. It will change the way you think about programming - for the better. Excellent It's a quality book for Java concurrency, well written and tremendously empowering. Every above-average Java developer should get a copy of this book. It is certainly not put down able in my experience. Avoid concurrency nightmare This books guide yourself to develop concurrency programs in the right way, giving you advises what to do and what not to do. It's the most complete reference about concurrence in Java. It's really fantastic. Cover from the basics to the complex aspects of concurrency. I strongly recommend this books. Best Java Book on Threading I recently bought this book from Amazon. Just finished Chapter 3. This book is full of real-life advice about designing and delivering Thread-safe classes. More importantly, it helps us (Java Developers) to question whether the 3rd party library we use in projects are thread-safe or not and spot concurrency "mousetraps".
This books introduces a topic usually with a "Bad" thread example and then reasons out the potential deficiencies (race conditions, etc.) that may happen when things go wrong with that code. Then (thankfully!) they propose a alternative correct solution in easy to understand code.
This book also addresses a gaping hole in current Javadocs standards followed by devlopers : not clearly mentioning the Thread-safety aspect of the class.
In all a excellent book and a must read along with "Effective Java". |  |
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