Achieve Strong Performance With Threads, Part 4 Focuses on thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and the ThreadDeath class. Also describes how various thread concepts combine to finalize objects. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2002/jw-0802-java101.html Javaworld.com~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check
Threading Lightly: Reducing Contention Explains why contended synchronization is a problem and then explores several techniques for reducing contention, and hence improving scalability. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-threads2.html Ibm.com~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check