Book reviews: the new wave - concurrent programming

Until now, concurrent programming has been widely used primarily on systems that do a lot of processing - for example, Web servers. With the advent of dual-core processors, however, concurrent programming is becoming the name of the game, even for PC applications. Creating Components: Object Oriented, Concurrent, and Distributed Computing in Java by Charles W. Kann is a good reference for programming concurrency using objects. The book is based on Java and uses threads, interfaces, and exceptions extensively to describe system design and management.