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Advance praise for
Java Concurrency in Practice
I was fortunate indeed to have worked with a fantastic team on the design and
implementation of the concurrency features added to the Java platform in Java 5.0
and Java 6. Now this same team provides the best explanation yet of these new
features, and of concurrency in general. Concurrency is no longer a subject for
advanced users only. Every Java developer should read this book.
—Martin Buchholz
JDK Concurrency Czar, Sun Microsystems
For the past 30 years, computer performance has been driven by Moore’s Law;
from now on, it will be driven by Amdahl’s Law. Writing code that effectively
exploits multiple processors can be very challenging. Java Concurrency in Practice
provides you with the concepts and techniques needed to write safe and scalable
Java programs for today’s—and tomorrow’s—systems.
—Doron Rajwan
Research Scientist, Intel Corp
This is the book you need if you’re writing—or designing, or debugging, or main-
taining, or contemplating—multithreaded Java programs. If you’ve ever had to
synchronize a method and you weren’t sure why, you owe it to yourself and your
users to read this book, cover to cover.
—Ted Neward
Author of Effective Enterprise Java
Brian addresses the fundamental issues and complexities of concurrency with
uncommon clarity. This book is a must-read for anyone who uses threads and
cares about performance.
—Kirk Pepperdine
CTO, JavaPerformanceTuning.com
This book covers a very deep and subtle topic in a very clear and concise way,
making it the perfect Java Concurrency reference manual. Each page is filled
with the problems (and solutions!) that programmers struggle with every day.
Effectively exploiting concurrency is becoming more and more important now
that Moore’s Law is delivering more cores but not faster cores, and this book will
show you how to do it.
—Dr. Cliff Click
Senior Software Engineer, Azul Systems
