Instructs users where to use threads to increase efficiency, how to use them effectively, and how to avoid common mistakes and discusses problems like deadlock, race conditions, and starvation in detail, helping to write code without hidden bugs. Original. (Advanced)

Introduces the concepts of the JXTA platform for peer-to-peer distributed computing, and includes the JXTA protocol specification.

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A handy reference guide and tutorial introduces Java programmers to Jini, a simple set of Java services and classes that allows devices and services to interact with each other, covering such topics as security, Jini and RMI, basic Jini programming techniques and applications, and more. Original. (Beginner) (view table of contents)