Concurrent Programming in Java

Errata for the first printing of the second edition

Corrections and Clarifications

Page vi (acknowledgments)

On most copies, a production error lopped off the rightmost one or two characters on each of the top 4 lines. These lines should read:

... many contributions, helping to develop and extend material for tutorials that in turn became included in the second edition.

Rosemary Simpson contributed numerous improvements in the course of creating the index. Ken Arnold patiently helped me deal with FrameMaker. Mike Hendrickson and the editorial crew at Addison-Wesley have been continually supportive.

Page 11

If the applet appears to display only one particle, it is because the Random constructor on your JVM initialized all generators with the same seed. While this is not an error in your JVM or in the book, you can work around this by replacing line:

      protected final Random rng = new Random();
    

with

      protected final Random rng = new Random(this.hashCode());
    

Page 79

Change "... the accessor at while..." to "... the accessor get while..." [Inconsistent method naming.]

Page 81

Change "... operations (size and at) ..." to "... operations (size and get) ..." [Inconsistent method naming.]

Page 170

Change "... at only at ..." to "... at only ..." [Typo.]

Page 252

Change "... expense ..." to "... expense of ..." [Typo.]

Page 392 (index)

Replace page number reference for fork/join from "344-457" to "344-357". [Typo.]

Thanks to Linda Rising and Tom Shields for pointing out errors.

Please send any questions or comments about this book to dl@cs.oswego.edu.