Includes 25 patterns for improving data access and application performance. Every pattern is illustrated with commented Java/JDBC code examples, as well as UML diagrams representing interfaces, classes, and relationships. This book explains the techniques used in robust data access solutions.

Spammers, virus writers, phishermen, money launderers, and spies trade busily with each other in a lively online criminal economy and as they specialize, they get better. This title reveals how to build systems that stay dependable whether faced with error or malice.

Provides coverage of the Java 2 platform as well as the memory model, cancellation, portable parallel programming, and, utility classes for concurrency control. This book is intended for intermediate to advanced programmers interested in mastering the complexities of concurrent programming.

Reviews and describes the key concepts, principles and applications of modern distributed computing systems and architectures. This book is useful for both advanced students and practitioners in computer science, computer networks and distributed systems.

'Algorithmics' presents the most important, concepts, methods and results that are fundamental to the science of computing. It starts by introducing the basic ideas of algorithms, including their structures and methods of data manipulation. It demonstrates how to design accurate and efficient algorithms, and discusses their inherent limitations.

This is a book for readers in transition from `school mathematics' to the fully fledged type of thinking used by professional mathematicians.