Table of Contents - Java Threads, Third Edition

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		Copyright
		Preface
			Who Should Read This Book?
			Versions Used in This Book
			What's New in This Edition?
			Organization of This Book
			Conventions Used in This Book
			Code Examples
			How to Contact Us
			Safari Enabled
			Acknowledgments
		Chapter 1.  Introduction to Threads
			Section 1.1.  Java Terms
			Section 1.2.  About the Examples
			Section 1.3.  Why Threads?
			Section 1.4.  Summary
		Chapter 2.  Thread Creation and Management
			Section 2.1.  What Is a Thread?
			Section 2.2.  Creating a Thread
			Section 2.3.  The Lifecycle of a Thread
			Section 2.4.  Two Approaches to Stopping a Thread
			Section 2.5.  The Runnable Interface
			Section 2.6.  Threads and Objects
			Section 2.7.  Summary
		Chapter 3.  Data Synchronization
			Section 3.1.  The Synchronized Keyword
			Section 3.2.  The Volatile Keyword
			Section 3.3.  More on Race Conditions
			Section 3.4.  Explicit Locking
			Section 3.5.  Lock Scope
			Section 3.6.  Choosing a Locking Mechanism
			Section 3.7.  Nested Locks
			Section 3.8.  Deadlock
			Section 3.9.  Lock Fairness
			Section 3.10.  Summary
		Chapter 4.  Thread Notification
			Section 4.1.  Wait and Notify
			Section 4.2.  Condition Variables
			Section 4.3.  Summary
		Chapter 5.  Minimal Synchronization Techniques
			Section 5.1.  Can You Avoid Synchronization?
			Section 5.2.  Atomic Variables
			Section 5.3.  Thread Local Variables
			Section 5.4.  Summary
		Chapter 6.  Advanced Synchronization Topics
			Section 6.1.  Synchronization Terms
			Section 6.2.  Synchronization Classes Added in J2SE 5.0
			Section 6.3.  Preventing Deadlock
			Section 6.4.  Deadlock Detection
			Section 6.5.  Lock Starvation
			Section 6.6.  Summary
		Chapter 7.  Threads and Swing
			Section 7.1.  Swing Threading Restrictions
			Section 7.2.  Processing on the Event-Dispatching Thread
			Section 7.3.  Using invokeLater( ) and invokeAndWait( )
			Section 7.4.  Long-Running Event Callbacks
			Section 7.5.  Summary
		Chapter 8.  Threads and Collection Classes
			Section 8.1.  Overview of Collection Classes
			Section 8.2.  Synchronization and Collection Classes
			Section 8.3.  The Producer/Consumer Pattern
			Section 8.4.  Using the Collection Classes
			Section 8.5.  Summary
		Chapter 9.  Thread Scheduling
			Section 9.1.  An Overview of Thread Scheduling
			Section 9.2.  Scheduling with Thread Priorities
			Section 9.3.  Popular Threading Implementations
			Section 9.4.  Summary
		Chapter 10.  Thread Pools
			Section 10.1.  Why Thread Pools?
			Section 10.2.  Executors
			Section 10.3.  Using a Thread Pool
			Section 10.4.  Queues and Sizes
			Section 10.5.  Thread Creation
			Section 10.6.  Callable Tasks and Future Results
			Section 10.7.  Single-Threaded Access
			Section 10.8.  Summary
		Chapter 11.  Task Scheduling
			Section 11.1.  Overview of Task Scheduling
			Section 11.2.  The java.util.Timer Class
			Section 11.3.  The javax.swing.Timer Class
			Section 11.4.  The ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor Class
			Section 11.5.  Summary
		Chapter 12.  Threads and I/O
			Section 12.1.  A Traditional I/O Server
			Section 12.2.  A New I/O Server
			Section 12.3.  Interrupted I/O
			Section 12.4.  Summary
		Chapter 13.  Miscellaneous Thread Topics
			Section 13.1.  Thread Groups
			Section 13.2.  Threads and Java Security
			Section 13.3.  Daemon Threads
			Section 13.4.  Threads and Class Loading
			Section 13.5.  Threads and Exception Handling
			Section 13.6.  Threads, Stacks, and Memory Usage
			Section 13.7.  Summary
		Chapter 14.  Thread Performance
			Section 14.1.  Overview of Performance
			Section 14.2.  Synchronized Collections
			Section 14.3.  Atomic Variables and Contended Synchronization
			Section 14.4.  Thread Creation and Thread Pools
			Section 14.5.  Summary
		Chapter 15.  Parallelizing Loops for Multiprocessor Machines
			Section 15.1.  Parallelizing a Single-Threaded Program
			Section 15.2.  Multiprocessor Scaling
			Section 15.3.  Summary
		Appendix A.  Superseded Threading Utilities
			Section A.1.  The BusyFlag Class
			Section A.2.  The CondVar Class
			Section A.3.  The Barrier Class
			Section A.4.  The RWLock Class
			Section A.5.  The ThreadPool Class
			Section A.6.  The JobScheduler Class
			Section A.7.  Summary
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		Index

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