This book shows you how to take full advantage of Java's thread facilities: when to use threads to increase your program's efficiency, how to use them effectively, and how to avoid common mistakes. There is thorough coverage of the Thread API, ThreadGroup classes, the Runnable interface, and the synchronized operator.Extensive, complete, code examples show programmers the details of creating and managing threads in real-world applications.

• Comprehensive and professional approach to multi-threaded Java programming and development with the Java Thread APIs
• Extremely practical, hands-on book that contains concise descriptions of the theory,complete applications, and thousands of lines of proven, real world Java code .

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I: Threads

Chapter 1: Introduction to Threads

Chapter 2: A Simple Two-Thread Example

Chapter 3: Creating and Starting a Thread

Chapter 4: Implementing Runnable Versus Extending Thread

Chapter 5: Gracefully Stopping Threads

Chapter 6: Thread Prioritization

Chapter 7: Concurrent Access to Objects and Variables

Chapter 8: Inter-thread Communication

Chapter 9: Threads and Swing

Chapter 10: Thread Groups

Part II: Techniques

Chapter 11: Self-Running Objects

Chapter 12: Exception Callback

Chapter 13: Thread Pooling

Chapter 14: Waiting for the Full Timeout

Chapter 15: Breaking Out of a Blocked 1/0 State

Chapter 16: The SureStop Utility

Chapter 17: The BooleanLock Utility

Chapter 18: First-In-First-Out (FIFO) Queue

Part III: Appendixes

Appendix A: The Thread API

Appendix B: The ThreadGroup API

Index