Java threads

Author: Ou Ke
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: To meet the urgent demand of readers for knowledge of network and software technology, the world-renowned computer book publishing organization O'Reilly Associates has authorized China Electric Power Press to translate and publish a series of its highly acclaimed classic English technical monographs. This edition also includes extensive examples demonstrating how to implement thread pools and other synchronization techniques such as condition variables, barriers, and guardian locks. It shows how to work with non-thread-safe classes and focuses particularly on thread issues in Swing. A new chapter has been added, introducing how to write parallel code for multi-processor machines. In short, the new edition of this book covers all aspects of threading, from simple animation applets to complex applications. If you plan to do anything important with Java, you will find this book valuable.
Author Bio: Scott Oaks is a Java technology expert at Sun Microsystems, where he has worked since 1987, specializing in a variety of technologies ranging from the SunOS kernel to network programming, from RPC to X Windows systems to threading. Since the first half of 1995, he has primarily focused on Java and providing Java technology to end users. He writes a monthly column on Java solutions for The Java Report. On the Internet, he is known as the author of olvwm and the manager of OPENLOOK wingdow. He is also the author of Java Security (O'Reilly Publishing).