Concurrent Programming in Java

1.1 Using Concurrency Constructs

Follow-ups

Readings and Resources

• Gosling, James, Bill Joy, and Guy Steele. The JavaTM Language Specification, Addison-Wesley, 1996. See also the online version. A second edition of JLS is projected to contain clarifications and updates for the Java 2 Platform.

Introductory accounts include:

• Arnold, Ken, and James Gosling. The JavaTM Programming Language, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1998.

If you have never written a program using threads, you may find it useful to work through either the online or book version of the Threads section of:

• Campione, Mary, and Kathy Walrath. The JavaTM Tutorial, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1998.

A concise guide to UML notation is:

• Fowler, Martin, with Kendall Scott. UML Distilled, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1999. The UML diagram keys on pages 3-4 of the present book are excerpted by permission.

A more extensive account of UML is:

• Rumbaugh, James, Ivar Jacobson, and Grady Booch. The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual, Addison-Wesley, 1999.

ZThreads is a C++ library containing similar functionality as util.concurrent.