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Programming Java threads in the real world, Part 1

A Java programmer's guide to threading architectures

By Allen Holub, JavaWorld.com, 09/01/98

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Page 6 of 6

  1. Deadlock, starvation, and nested-monitor lockout
  2. Roll-your-own mutexes and a deadlock-handling lock manager
  3. Counting semaphores, condition variables, and singletons
  4. Event notification in a multithreaded environment (the mysteries of the AWTEventMulticaster)
  5. Reader/writer locks
  6. Timers
  7. Synchronous-dispatching: multithreading without threads
  8. Implementing the active-object pattern


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Resources
  • For a great in-depth look at multithreading in general and the implementation of multithreading both in and with Java in particular, this one's a must. It's required reading if you're using threads heavilyDoug Lea, Concurrent Programming in JavaDesign Principles and Patterns (Addison Wesley, 1997). http://java.sun.com/docs/books/cp/
  • For an intro-level book on Java threading that is less technical but more readable than Lea's effort, seeScott Oaks and Henry Wong, Java Threads (O'Reilly, 1997)
    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jthreads/
  • This book is good for those looking into the general subject of multithreading, but doesn't have a Java slantBill Lewis and Daniel J. Berg, Threads PrimerA Guide to Multithreaded Programming (Prentice Hall/SunSoft Press, ISBN 0-13-443698-9)
    http://www.sun.com/books/books/Lewis/Lewis.html
  • Doug Schmidt's ACE framework is a good, though complex, attempt at a truly platform-independent threading system
    http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/