In Taming Java Threads, well-known columnist and Java expert Allen Holub provides Java programmers with the information they need to write real multithreaded programs with real code. He not only explains common problems, but also provides a common solution that marks the difference between production-level code and demo toys. Topics covered in this book include the architecture of yarn, while the mutex and lock management, variable conditions and counting semaphores, timers, alarms, and swing thread safety, observers and multicasters; single, critical sessions, and the reader / writer lock; threads in object-oriented world; and object-oriented threading architecture. While it is important to build support for threading into a Java program from the beginning, most books on the subjects of Java-UI construction and Java networking barely touched the threading of topics.