Customer Review: This book will save you hours of trouble shooting the little things that don't work as intuitively as they should in Java.
I have not found an un-useful idea here.
It also shows you how to make your application more efficient (faster).
The author has already done the timing tests... more info
Customer Review: you can't just synchronize everything... and that's the point of this book. synchronizing is critical but most of us do it incorrectly without a thorough understanding of the jvm. this book has given me some useful concurrency patterns which are sufficient for good programming practice. the part of... more info
Customer Review: Don't buy this book if you other chores to do. You won't be able to put it down! Both fun and challenging. A one-of-a-kind book for Java lovers.