CS 704: Concurrent Programming in Java

Objectives

• Understand the theoretical aspects of concurrent programming.
• Have a thorough understanding of Java concurrency mechanism.
• Understand the fundamental concepts necessary to create concurrent servers.
• Have the competencies required to write Servlets/JSP for multithreaded application servers.

Prerequisites

• CS 703.

Syllabus

• Concurrency mechanisms
• Design Principles for Concurrent Application: Safety, Liveness, Performance, and Reusability
• Concurrency and Object-Oriented Programming
• Concurrency and Multithreading in Java
• The guarded computation
• State Dependence and Nested Monitors
• Transactions and Coordination
• Asynchronous Method Calls and the worker pool
• Threads and Parallel Decomposition
• Java Server Pages and Servlet

Edited March 2006 (html, css checks)