My favorite book so far about concurrency in java. It is focused to the topic of multithreaded java application. Beginning with the fundamentals of concurrency in java to advanced topics like custom synchronizers and the java memory model everything is covered.
You should have some experience in java programming before you start reading this book. Chapters like “how to install your IDE” or “setting up my first hello world application” you will not find. But that is not the purpose of this book.
In the first paragraph I wrote everything is covered. Thats true for all aspects of programming multithreaded applications. Many books put into this topic everything which has to do with parallel execution of code on one or more hosts and contain a chapter about Remote Method Invocation (RMI) and Webservices. Both you will not find in this book of Brain Goetz.
In my opinion a good choice to keep the focus small and concentrate on multithreading and all related problems like Liveness and Performance (and how to solve or improve them).
If you have an account for Safari Books you can read this book online. Otherwise have a visit at you local library and take a old style paper version with the ultimate feature that it can be read outdoor while enjoying the first warm beams of the spring sun…
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