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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2752
EAN: 9780201310092
ISBN: 0201310090
Label: Prentice Hall PTR
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: November 04, 1999
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Sales Rank: 150615
Studio: Prentice Hall PTR
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Rating:  - Too Theoretical
The book contains a lot of concurrent and parallel programming theories, but the organization of the contents is not well formed, such that the reading and understanding of the book are hard. The examples giving in the book are not very helpful either.
Overall, the book seems to target for academic researchers rather than developers. Highly recommend "Java Concurrency In Practice" which is much more practical and easier understood by Brian Goetz
Rating:  - 5 for knowledge; 0 for the writing -> 2.5 -> 2
Sure he knows his stuff but doesn't have a clue on how to write. This is appallingly poorly written. It is one of the most ridiculously disorganized collections of academic 'verbage' (verbiage subsumes garbage) I have ever read. It's almost useless as a reference: its very non-linear (say non-deterministic almost) in concept elucidation (perhaps he's taken the notion of multithreading too much to heart and tried multi-threaded writing???). It's useless as a book to learn from- since learning by example ... Read More
Rating: - If you want to program concurency in Java you need this book
This is a kind of book you'll need to start developing concurrent systems in Java. It shows details of what should be done to safely handle patterns for concurrent programs.
I beleive this book is a must for every developer who want to start learning concurrency design priciples for Java.
Rating:  - Great Threaded Programming Information for More than Java
This is the best book I have ever read on threading, and certainly applies well to other languages naturally (especially languages with a modern and mature thread library like Mono/.NET). Unlike other reviewers here, I encourage so-called "beginners" to read this book. He has plenty of examples so you will not get lost, and this *is* the right way to do things, so start with this one.
Rating: - Will make you a better programmer, but not for beginners.
This book is great but don't read it as your first introduction to Java threads.
This book is not about Java threads per se, but more about design patterns and good object oriented programming practices as applied to concurrent programming (hence the title). Doug Lea is a university professor and this book has a very academic style, including a ton of references to an impressive array of concurrency and object oriented research. While this makes the material somewhat dense, it is very thorough ... Read More
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