Title: Good book
Product review: This book was a required text in a graduate course in Software Engineering that I had taken. As many other reviewers said, it is solid on theory but lacks from a practical standpoint. None of the new threading features in J2SE 5 are covered which is a significant drawback. For beginners to threading, this book does a decent job of illustrating some of the issues/problems that will be encountered and potential ways to solve them. The book's website has applets that allows the reader to see some of the problems in action which is nice. However, if you are already working in the industry and you need to use threads, a better choice would be Java Concurrency In Practice by Brian Goetz.
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