Threads are essential to Java programming, but learning to use them effectively is a nontrivial task This new edition of the classic Java Threads shows you how to take full advantage of Java's threading facilities and brings you up-to-date with the watershed changes in Java 2 Standard Edition version 5 0 (J2SE 5 0) It provides a thorough, step-by-step озщзе approach to threads programming Java's threading system is simple relative to other threading systems In earlier versions of Java, this simplicity came with tradeoffs: some of the advanced features in other threading systems were not available in Java J2SE 5 0 changes all that: it provides a large number of new thread-related classes that make the task of writing multithreaded programs that much easier You'll learn where to use threads to increase efficiency, how to use them effectively, and how to avoid common mistakes This book discusses problems like deadlock, race conditions, and starvation in detail, helping you to write code without hidden bugs Java Threads, Third Edition, has been thoroughly expanded and revised It incorporates the concurrency utilities from java util concurrent throughout New chapters cover thread performance, using threads with Swing, threads and Collection classes, thread pools, and threads and I/O (traditional, new, and interrupted) Developers who cannot yet deploy J2SE 5 0 can use thread utilities provided in the Appendix to achieve similar functionality with earlier versions of Java.  AllegroISBN 0596007825.