January 21, 2003 Meeting - 7:00 PM

Multi-threaded Design Patterns
Mark Grand

Java has powerful facilities to manage multi-threading. This power makes it easy to write programs that perform simultaneous tasks. This presentation will be on how to design classes to do more than one thing at a time and at the right time without interfering with each other. The presentation will be organized as a set of design patterns for controlling threads using Java thread-management facilities.

Speaker Bio: Mark Grand is a consultant with over 25 years of experience who specializes in Distributed Systems, Object Oriented Design and Java. He was the architect of the first commercial B2B e-commerce product for the Internet. Mark Grand is most widely known for his best selling Patterns in Java books. Mark has taught for U.C. Berkeley, Sun, CNN and other organizations. Mark is based in the Atlanta. He has been involved with object oriented programming and design since 1982. You can find more information about Mark Grand at http://mgrand.home.mindspring.com. Download/View PDF (Acrobat 5 Required): Multi-Threading_Design_Patterns.pdf