Java Threads: Understanding and Mastering Concurrent Programming

If you are a Java programmer and you are thinking of using threads to make your work more responsive or even faster given todays symmetric multiprocessing hardware, then this is an excellent book. It probably isnt academic enough for use in formal education but as a practical guide to how not to do things, and hopefully how to do things better, it is excellent. - Harry Fairhead, VSJ, May 2005