Concurrent and Distributed Computing in Java

Rating:
Summary: A beginning step into the world of distributed algorithms
Review: I bought this book because I was interested in implementing
distributed algorithms. It has a good overview of the fundamental
algorithms and I found it helpful to see actual code. It's the only
book I know of that actually provides implementations rather than
pseudo code.

On the other hand, the algorithm descriptions were often condensed, and I
expected a more formal approach. I often found myself reading eagerly
to learn about an interesting variant of an algorithm only to find a
reference to a journal paper. It would be useful to cover a few more
variants more deeply.

Also, I was hoping to get an idea of an algorithm's usefulness and
performance in practice. Or is a particular algorithm more of
theoretical interest? The answer was not clear to me, although in
fairness, this was not the author's main purpose.