Approach

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This book can be divided roughly into five main sections.

• Chapters 1 to 3 cover the basics of concurrent programming. Topics include a definition of concurrent programming, the types of concurrent programming and why multiple types of concurrent programming exist, how concurrency is implemented and supported in Java, and some basic techniques for implementing a concurrent program.

• Chapters 4 to 6 cover basic Java topics, such as what an object is, how objects impact the implementation details of a program, what an interface is, how to use interfaces to program, and some basic exception-handling techniques in Java.

• Chapters 7 to 9 cover some more advanced topics for implementing concurrent programming in Java, such as the Java Event Model and notification objects. Examples are given of how these techniques can be combined to produce powerful solutions to problems.

• Chapters 10 to 12 cover program design and management. OOP techniques such as composition and classification are covered, with an emphasis on how their use impacts components. Implementation decisions made specifically in the Java programming language that support program management are also discussed.

• Chapter 13 applies the material from the rest of the book to distributed programming using RMI.

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