Brian Goetz: Publications

	Brian Goetz Publications

Books	Java Concurrency in Practice. Addison-Wesley, 2006. With Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes, and Doug Lea.
Regular columns	Java Theory and Practice: a monthly column in IBM developerWorks on Java programming concepts, techniques, and best practices. Are all stateful web applications broken? Sept 2008. Going wild with generics, Part II. July 2008. Going wild with generics. May 2008. Stick a fork in it, Part II. March 2008. Stick a fork in it, Part I. November 2007. Managing volatility. June, 2007. The Closures debate. April 2007. Using Java 5 language features in earlier JDKs. February 2007. Instrumenting applications with JMX. September 2006. Testing with leverage, part III. August 2006. Testing with leverage, part II. July 2006. Testing with leverage, part I. June 2006. Dealing with InterruptedException. May 2006. Introduction to nonblocking algorithms. April 2006. Good housekeeping practices. March 2006. The pseudo-typedef antipattern. February 2006. Plugging memory leaks with soft references. December 2005. Plugging memory leaks with weak references. November 2005. Looking ahead: synchronization optimizations in Mustang. October 2005. Urban performance legends revisited: slow object allocation. September 2005. Decorating with dynamic proxies. August 2005. Be a good (event) listener. July 2005. Borrowing a data model. May 2005. Initialization atomicity. April 2005. Screen scraping with XQuery. March 2005. Anatomy of a flawed microbenchmark. February 2005. Gotchas with generics. January 2005. Dynamic compilation and performance measurement. December 2004. Going Atomic. November 2004. More flexible, scalable locking in JDK 5.0. October 2004. State replication in the web tier. July 2004. Kill bugs dead. June 2004. The Exceptions debate. May 2004. Coaxing J2EE out of the container. April 2004. Fixing the Java Memory Model, Part 2. March 2004. Fixing the Java Memory Model, Part 1. February 2004. Garbage collection and performance. January 2004. Garbage collection in the 1.4.1 JVM. November 2003. A brief history of garbage collection. October 2003. Characterizing thread-safety. September 2003. Building a better HashMap. August 2003. Concurrent collection classes. July 2003. Whose object is it, anyway? June 2003. Hashing it out. May 2003. Urban Performance Legends. April 2003. Performance management -- do you have a plan? March 2003. To mutate, or not to mutate? February 2003. What's your point? January 2003. Concurrency made simple (sort of.) November 2002. Is that your final answer? October 2002. Hey, where'd my thread go? September 2002. I have to document THAT? August 2002. Thread Pools and Work Queues. July 2002. Safe Construction Techniques. June 2002. Understanding the Java Transaction Service, part 3: Balancing safety and performance. May 2002. Understanding the Java Transaction Service, part 2: The magic behind the scenes. April 2002. Understanding the Java Transaction Service, part 1: An introduction to transactions. March 2002. Should you use JMS in your next enterprise application?. February 2002.
Other articles and publications	Optimistic Thread Concurrency. Azul Systems (whitepaper), January 2006. Realizing the Elegance of Java Technology. Azul Systems (whitepaper), January 2006. The Azul Virtual Machine. Azul Systems (whitepaper), August 2005. The next wave in J2EE deployment. JavaWorld, April 2005. Tutorial: Introduction to generic types in JDK 5.0. IBM developerWorks Java Zone, December 2004. Tutorial: Concurrency in JDK 5.0, IBM developerWorks Java Zone, November 2004. Making concurrency easier, JavaPro, June 2004. New J2ME Standards. MobilizedSoftware.com, March 2004. A first look at JSR 166: Concurrency Utilities. java.net, February 2004. Web services are outgrowing their name. Intel Developer, June 2003. How Amazon uses Web services to connect with partners. Intel Developer, May 2003. The Web services tools landscape. Intel Developer, March 2003. Web services brings enterprise computing out of the data center. Intel Developer, February 2003. Tutorial: Introduction to Java Threads. IBM developerWorks Java Zone, September 2002. Stamp out spam with SpamAssassin. IBM developerWorks Linux Zone, September 2002. JNDI without J2EE. JavaWorld, April 2002. Can ThreadLocal solve the double-checked locking problem? JavaWorld, November 2001. Avoiding synchronization deadlocks. JavaWorld, October 2001. Exceptional Practices: a series on the use and misuse of exceptions. JavaWorld, August-November 2001. Part 1: Using Exceptions Effectively Part 2: Exception Chaining Part 3: Message Catalogs Threading Lightly; a three-part series on creating efficient multithreaded applications. IBM developerWorks, July-October 2001. Part 1: Synchronization is not the enemy. Part 2: Reducing Contention. Part 3: Exploiting ThreadLocal. Can double-checked locking be fixed? JavaWorld, May 2001. Double-checked locking: Clever, but broken. JavaWorld, February 2001. Design for Performance; a three part series in JavaWorld on how design decisions made early in the development process can have significant consequences for program performance. January-March 2001. Part 1: Interfaces matter Part 2: Reduce object creation Part 3: Remote Interfaces Tweak your IO performance for faster runtime. JavaWorld, November 2000. The Lucene Search Engine -- Powerful, Flexible, and Free. JavaWorld, Sept 2000.

Acknowledgements	Thanks to all the folks that have helped me develop these articles and contributed great ideas -- Joe Bowbeer, Doug Lea, Josh Bloch, Jack Shirazi, Jeffrey Siegal, Michael Maurer, Jeremy Manson, Tim Peierls, David Holmes, Cliff Click, Richard Jones, Jason Hunter, Tony Printezis, Sam Pullara, Bill Scherer, and Barry Hayes for their valuable technical feedback; Jenni Aloi, Jennifer Orr, Patrick Vincent, and Jessica Lane for their editorial advice; and all the readers and colleagues who have made great comments and suggestions.
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