Review of
Java
Threads, by Scott Oaks & Henry Wong ISBN 1565924185
Four out of five stars
At the turn of
the century I was developing and teaching a series of contract training courses
in Java for a local IT company. When they made the request for a course
covering Java threads I needed a quick refresher in the subject. This is the
book that I used.
The content is
as much a primer on threads (multitasking) than it is an in-depth explanation
of how threads are implemented in the Java programming language. There is no
large project, while working code is included, it is generally in the form of
short snippets. There are only two or three instances where the code example is
more than two pages long and there is a great deal of internal whitespace.
Topics covered include controlling, scheduling,
creating, activating and deleting Java threads. While this book is of course
very dated regarding the specifics, it still has value as an introduction to
this critical and increasingly important coding technique.
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