Java Concurrency in Practice
February 6th, 2010 by CGI & PHP.com
- ISBN13: 9780321349606
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
"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, com… More >>
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February 6th, 2010 at 8:42 am
Simply put this book can be viewed from a love it or hate it perspective, but personally when i bought Java Generics and Collections ( O Reilly ) i was impressed by the depth of their coverage, it gave me that inside edge and the internal knowledge of generics and collections ( how they work etc. ) This Book works well in giving what to do, what could have been done better and some portions on Concurrent package, but simply put I AM NOT SATISFIED WITH ITS COVERAGE ON CONCURRENT PACKAGE!. if you stack up generics against this one, i'd say generics is 200% better than this one.
So yea i was a bit disappointed with the book. But hey, nothing works better than the Java Language Spec Third edition =). ( at least it gives you everything exhaustively ).
Regards
Vyas, Anirudh
Rating: 3 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Though the book is admittedly good and valuable in content, the paper quality of the pages is absolutely horrible! One can see through to the next page, and using a highlighter for emphasis is next to impossible. I will never buy this book as long as the paper quality is so poor (as my colleagues have also mentioned).
Rating: 3 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 11:00 am
I'm sure the content is still superb. But the quality of the paper is pretty poor. The latest release of this paperback, 5th printing, July 2007, is printed on thin see-through recycled paper. I'm for preserving the environment, but I'm against paying full price for what seems like shoddy merchandise.
I tend not to buy international editions, precisely because the paper is so cheap that you can see right through it, making reading difficult. Sadly, this domestic edition suffers the same fate, albeit not as badly as some Low Priced Editions; it's merely annoying. Truth be told, other domestic full priced editions also have translucent paper; but I still don't like it, and the flimsy through-view paper in this book stands out. For example, with the pages flat, I can read parts of page 221 through the white space on page 219!
Rating: 3 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
I have only read first three chapters till now. But I can certainly say "This is a must have for all JAVA programmers.".
Rating: 5 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
This is a very nice book to get to know all the tools of Java 5 for concurrency support.
Rating: 4 / 5