Java Concurrency in Practice

As processors become faster and multiprocessor systems become cheaper, the need to take advantage of multithreading to achieve full hardware resource utilization increases the importance of incorporating concurrency in a wide variety of application categories. For many developers, concurrency remains a mystery. Developing, testing, and debugging multithreaded programs is extremely difficult because concurrency hazards do not manifest themselves uniformly or reliably. This book is intended to be neither an introduction to concurrency nor an encyclopedic reference of all things concurrency. Instead, this title is a combination of concepts, guidelines, and examples intended to assist developers in the challenging process of understanding concurrency and its new tools in J2SE 5.0. Filled with contributions from Java experts, this book provides Java programmers with the basic building blocks they need to gain a fundamental understanding of concurrency and its benefits.