Hello Suhaib
Yes, the book covers the most important features of the Java 7 Concurrency API. We gave more importance to the new features in the Java 7 version, but it include recipes that show how to use the basic features of the concurrency API. For example, the first chapter of the book include the following recipes
-Creating and running a
thread
-Getting and setting thread information
-Interrupting a thread
-Controlling the interruption of a thread
-Sleeping and resuming a thread
-Waiting for the finalization of a thread
-Creating and running a daemon thread
-Processing uncontrolled exceptions in a thread
-Using local thread variables
-Grouping threads into a group
-Processing uncontrolled exceptions in a group of threads
-Creating threads through a factory
As you see, it includes basic thread operations.
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