Great introduction to concurrent programming with objects

This book provides a good introduction to Concurrent and Object Oriented Programming in Java. I was fortunate enough to take Dr. Kann's class last semester, while this book was being finalized. This is probably the best book I have been assigned as a class textbook while in school, both in readability, and usefulness.

Reading this book will make programming concurrent applications in Java easy, just by following the design patterns in the text. Use of notification objects and synchronization is well explained. If you'd like to understand object oriented concepts such as composition and classification in an easy to understand way, this book will help. Throughout the course of the book, the reader can watch the construction of a concurrent program from beginning to end. The concurrent program (the animator), is also a handy class which can be used to perform simple multithreaded animations.

The section on distributed computing (Java RMI) implements a simple chat client/server in Java which can be used across the internet. Very easy to write your own chat program in Java using the material in this book.

Code included in the book should have you up and running quickly. If you're ready to start utilizing the full power of java objects and multithreading, buy this book.

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• Great introduction to concurrent programming with objects