[Fwd: Free book: Multithreading]

[Fwd: Free book: Multithreading]

[Manuel Collado]

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Found in another newsgroup. May be of interest for Ada programmers.
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Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado

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From: Bo Sanden <bsanden@acm.org>
Subject: Free book: Multithreading
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:47:49 -0700
Message-ID: <13fsst717pjskf5@corp.supernews.com>

Title: Multithreading
Version: 0.9  August 2007
Author: Bo Sanden
License: Permission to copy if author, title and version are acknowledged
Copyright 2007 Bo Sanden, Colorado Technical University
Url: http://home.earthlink.net/~bosanden/Multithreading

This book is intended for designers and programmers of multithread 
software. It introduces the threading support in Ada and Java and 
presents Entity-Life Modeling, which is an intuitive design approach for 
reactive systems.

Reactive systems include those that operate in real time in the widest 
sense, such as embedded control systems as well as telephone switches; 
interactive systems from automated teller machines and gas pumps to 
travel reservation systems; and event processing systems such as many 
games. ELM also applies to discrete-event simulations based on the 
process interaction world view. ELM finds multithread solutions to 
problems that are inherently concurrent., which interact .

With Entity-life modeling, you pattern threads on event threads in the 
problem domain much as an object-oriented program is patterned on 
objects in the problem domain.

Part I: Foundations
1. Introduction
2. Support for multithreading (Ada, Java and Pthreads)
3. State modeling (general introduction of state machines)

Part II: Entity-life modeling
4. Entity-life modeling
5. State-machine implementations
6. Resource sharing
7. Simultaneous exclusive access to multiple resources

Part III: Background and discussion
8. Real-time software architectures. Data-flow design approaches
9. The origins of entity-life modeling