Fully updated to reflect Java SE 7 language changes, Advance Java®, Volume II—Advanced Features, Fifteenth Best Selling Edition, is the definitive guide to Java’s most powerful features for enterprise and desktop application development.Â
"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."Â
--Martin BuchholzÂ
JDK Concurrency Czar, Sun MicrosystemsÂ
"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."Â
--Doron RajwanÂ
Research Scientist, Intel CorpÂ
"This is the book you need if you're writing--or designing, or debugging, or maintaining, 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."Â
--Ted NewardÂ
Author of Effective Enterprise JavaÂ
"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."Â
--Kirk PepperdineÂ
CTO, JavaPerformanceTuning.comÂ
"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."Â
--Dr. Cliff ClickÂ
Senior Software Engineer, Azul SystemsÂ
"I have a strong interest in concurrency, and have probably written more thread deadlocks and made more synchronization mistakes than most programmers. Brian's book is the most readable on the topic of threading and concurrency in Java, and deals with this difficult subject with a wonderful hands-on approach. This is a book I am recommending to all my readers of The Java Specialists' Newsletter, because it is interesting, useful, and relevant to the problems facing Java developers today."Â
--Dr. Heinz KabutzÂ
The Java Specialists'Â
Designed for serious programmers, this reliable, unbiased, no-nonsense tutorial illuminates advanced Java language and library features with thoroughly tested code examples. As in previous editions, all code is easy to understand and displays modern best-practice solutions to the realworld challenges faced by professional developers.Â
Volume II quickly brings you up-to-speed on key Java SE 7 enhancements, ranging from the new file I/O API to improved concurrency utilities. All code examples are updated to reflect these enhancements. Complete descriptions of new language and platform features are highlighted and integrated with insightful explanations of advanced Java programming techniques. You’ll learn all you need to build robust production software withÂ
Streams, files, and regular expressionsÂ
XMLÂ
NetworkingÂ
Database programming facilitiesÂ
JNDI/LDAP directory integrationÂ
InternationalizationÂ
Advanced Swing techniquesÂ
JavaBeans componentsÂ
Web servicesÂ
Advanced platform security featuresÂ
AnnotationsÂ
Distributed objectsÂ
Native methods, and moreÂ
For detailed coverage of fundamental Java SE 7 features, including objects, classes, inheritance, interfaces, reflection, events, exceptions, graphics, Swing, generics, collections, concurrency, and debugging,