Java Threads

Argumento de Java Threads

Java's threading system is simple relative to other
threading systems. In earlier versions of Java, this
simplicity came with tradeoffs: some of the advanced
features in other threading systems were not available in
Java. J2SE 5.0 changes all that: it provides a large number
of new thread-related classes that make the task of writing
multithreaded programs that much easier.

You'll learn where to use threads to increase efficiency,
how to use them effectively, and how to avoid common
mistakes. This book discusses problems like deadlock, race
conditions, and starvation in detail, helping you to write
code without hidden bugs.

Java Threads, Third Edition, has been thoroughly expanded
and revised. It incorporates the concurrency utilities from
java.util.concurrent throughout. New chapters cover thread
performance, using threads with Swing, threads and
Collection classes, thread pools, and threads and I/O
(traditional, new, and interrupted). Developers who cannot
yet deploy J2SE 5.0 can use thread utilities provided in the
Appendix to achieve similar functionality with earlier
versions of Java.

Topics include:
Lock starvation and deadlock detection
Atomic classes and minimal synchronization (J2SE 5.0)
Interaction of Java threads with Swing, I/O, and Collection
classes
Programmatically controlled locks and condition variables
(J2SE 5.0)
Thread performance and security
Thread pools (J2SE 5.0)
Thread groups
Platform-specific thread scheduling
Task schedulers (J2SE 5.0)
Parallelizing loops for multiprocessor machines
In short, this new edition of Java Threads covers everything
you need to know about threads, from the simplest animation
program to the most complex applications. If you plan to do
any serious work in Java, you will find this book
invaluable.

Scott Oaks is a senior software engineer for the Java
Performance Engineering group at Sun Microsystems and the
author of four books in the O'Reilly Java series.
Formerly a senior systems engineer at Sun Microsystems,
Henry Wong is an independent consultant working on various
Java related projects.0