• Synchronization and concurrency
  • Why are synchronization and concurrency difficult?
  • Synchronization and concurrency before Java 5
  • Problems with the standard Java synchronization model
  • How synchronization works under the covers
  • The Atomic classes in Java 5
  • Explicit locks in Java 5
  • The wait/notify mechanism (and Java 5 alternatives)
  • Semaphores in Java 5
• Thread-local variables in Java
• Profiling in Java 5
  • Basic thread profiling methodology
  • ThreadMXBean introduction
  • Synchronization of profiling data
• Java I/O
  • Introduction to Java I/O classes
  • Input streams in Java
  • Error handling with InputStreams
  • Buffering I/O with BufferedInputStream
• Data compression in Java
  • How to use Deflater
  • How to configure Deflater
  • Improving compression: transforming data to work with FILTERED and HUFFMAN_ONLY modes

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