Good book on multithreading

Question

Could any one please give me suggestion on good book on multi threading with good theory. I have basic idea on Multithreading, so i would like to improve myseld on the same. Its better to give the name of the book and what the special in them.,
I would like to prefer a book more on Multithreading with swing.
Hope i would get good suggestion.
thx
lemuria.

Answer 1

Surely, there are excellent books about Threads and Concurrency, but I�m gonna tell you something: everything I know about threads I learnt by researching on the internet, reading free articles and the API docs, but mainly by coding. Of course, I don�t know everything, but I think my level of understanding is good enough for what my job requires from me.
My suggestion: to learn Threads, take a good IDE, like eclipse or netbeans, or any other that you can put breakpoints. Because if you just watch your multithreaded application running, you cannot notice in details what is really going on. Doubt those rules about Threads, see for yourself if they are really true, by putting breakpoints in strategic points of your code. When you debug your multithreaded app with breakpoints, you are able to do some things. Try breaking those laws about Threads, related to synchronization, locking, notification, etc, by executing your code line-by-line. Be curious, read articles, and check for yourself the truth about Threads.
It�s just a suggestion. Actually, I told you my experience, the way I used to learn about Threads. Perhaps it is not the best way to learn, but for me it worked very well. Certainly if I had read a good book about Threads, I would have learnt in a shorter period, but I decided to follow the hard path of learning. So, my final suggestion is: buy a good book, and try to see for yourself the threads in action in details, like I described above.