Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Java

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Summary: Finally, somebody makes sense of threads
Review: The basic syntax of C++ gave us all more than enough rope to hang ourselves. Java took that rope away when Gosling removed templates, operating overloading, and added garbage collection. But then he backed up the rope truck and unloaded threads on us. Now I see far too many programmers jumping into the world of Heisenbugs by building threaded applications without the proper understanding of their best use.

That's where this book comes in. It starts with the threading basics, but then goes on to show best practice strategies for the use of threads and architectures to manage threads. And what's more, the author gives us case studies that detail how these strategies and architectures are implemented.

There was a desperate need for this book, and the author has filled the void with excellent material. I strongly recommend this book to any Java programmer using threading. Which is to say, almost everyone.