Review by Billy Barron

"Java Threads, 2nd edition" by Oaks and Wong (O'Reilly; ISBN 1-56592-418-5) covers Java Threads in great detail. It not only covers the threads API, it also covers how they work and advanced tricks to using them.

The problem which most of the threading material related to Java I've read in other books has contained errors. "Java Threads" as well as Doug Lea's "Concurrent Programming in Java" are the only accurate books that I know of although their focus is very different. Another good thing about this book is that it has much otherwise hard to find information about how threads actually work in Java.

I highly recommend this book to anytone working with Java threads. I'm sure you will find information in here that you previously didn't know.

First Edition Review

"Java Threads" by Oaks and Wong (O'Reilly; ISBN 1-56592-216-6) fills a niche in the Java book market that needed to be filled. As far as I am aware, it is the only book on the market that deals strictly with threads in Java. It does a good job of thoroughly covering the technical aspects of threads. However, I would have been more impressed with the book if they have covered what I consider the hardest threads problem which is how to analyze and design a threads based program. It is still a useful book though.