Overview
Direct from the creators of the Java(tm) programming language, the completely revised fourth edition of The Java(tm) Programming Language is an indispensable resource for novice and advanced programmers alike. Developers around the world have used previous editions to quickly gain a deep understanding of the Java programming language, its design goals, and how to use it most effectively in real-world development. Now, Ken Arnold, James Gosling, and David Holmes have updated this classic to reflect the major enhancements in Java(tm) 2 Standard Edition 5.0 (J2SE(tm) 5.0). The authors systematically cover most classes in Java's main packages, java.lang.*, java.util, and java.io, presenting in-depth explanations of why these classes work as they do, with informative examples. Several new chapters and major sections have been added, and every chapter has been updated to reflect today's best practices for building robust, efficient, and maintainable Java software. Key changes in this edition include *New chapters on generics, enums, and annotations, the most powerful new language features introduced in J2SE 5.0*Changes to classes and methods throughout to reflect the addition of generics
*Major new sections on assertions and regular expressions
*Coverage of all the new language features, from autoboxing and variable argument methods to the enhanced for-loop and covariant return types
*Coverage of key new classes, such as Formatter and Scanner The Java(tm) Programming Language, Fourth Edition, is the definitive tutorial introduction to the Java language and essential libraries and an indispensable reference for all programmers, including those with extensive experience. It brings together insights you can only get from the creators of Java: insights that will help you write software of exceptional quality.
Synopsis
Direct from the creators of the Java(tm) programming language, the completely revised fourth edition of The Java(tm) Programming Language is an indispensable resource for novice and advanced programmers alike.
Developers around the world have used previous editions to quickly gain a deep understanding of the Java programming language, its design goals, and how to use it most effectively in real-world development. Now, Ken Arnold, James Gosling, and David Holmes have updated this classic to reflect the major enhancements in Java(tm) 2 Standard Edition 5.0 (J2SE(tm) 5.0). The authors systematically cover most classes in Java's main packages, java.lang.*, java.util, and java.io, presenting in-depth explanations of why these classes work as they do, with informative examples. Several new chapters and major sections have been added, and every chapter has been updated to reflect today's best practices for building robust, efficient, and maintainable Java software. Key changes in this edition include *New chapters on generics, enums, and annotations, the most powerful new language features introduced in J2SE 5.0*Changes to classes and methods throughout to reflect the addition of generics
*Major new sections on assertions and regular expressions
*Coverage of all the new language features, from autoboxing and variable argument methods to the enhanced for-loop and covariant return types
*Coverage of key new classes, such as Formatter and Scanner The Java(tm) Programming Language, Fourth Edition, is the definitive tutorial introduction to the Java language and essential libraries and an indispensable reference for all programmers, including those with extensive experience. It brings together insights you can only get from the creators of Java: insights that will help you write software of exceptional quality.
Booknews
"A reference for Java programmers, offering a solid foundation in Java programming strategies and techniques. After a concise introduction to the programming language, chapters describe its commands, constructs, and libraries and offer real-world examples showing how to exploit its portability and flexibility. Coverage includes classes and objects, interfaces, exception-handling, and Java core library packages. This second edition integrates Java 1.1 in both text and examples. Assumes familiarity with basic programming concepts."
--Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewThe world's most authoritative guide to Java has just been thoroughly updated. We're talking about The Java Programming Language, Third Edition, by Sun's James Gosling and Ken Arnold. Together with David Holmes, they present Java as implemented in JDK 1.3, with all the latest enhancements: the new strictfp keyword, collection classes, reference objects, and more.
JDK 1.3 isn't as big an upgrade as 1.2 was, but there's a lot more to this update than coverage of new features. Arnold, Gosling, and Holmes have thoroughly restructured and refined many of their discussions to more effectively explain existing features, notably nested classes and interfaces, and class APIs.
The book is replete with code examples, all tested under JDK 1.3 (and updated where necessary, eliminating virtually all deprecated types, methods, and fields). The coverage is comprehensive, starting with Java's core object-oriented features and standard constructs, then moving on to exceptions, strings, threads, type-related classes, garbage collection, packages, I/O, collections, system programming, internationalization and localization, even documenting your code.
As always, The Java Programming Language doesn't settle for teaching you how to write code that'll merely compile: It focuses on key principles of good programming style and design. No matter what your background with (or without) Java, it'll make you a far more effective developer. (Bill Camarda)
Bill Camarda is a consultant and writer with nearly 20 years' experience in helping technology companies deploy and market advanced software, computing, and networking products and services. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.
Booknews
"A reference for Java programmers, offering a solid foundation in Java programming strategies and techniques. After a concise introduction to the programming language, chapters describe its commands, constructs, and libraries and offer real-world examples showing how to exploit its portability and flexibility. Coverage includes classes and objects, interfaces, exception-handling, and Java core library packages. This second edition integrates Java 1.1 in both text and examples. Assumes familiarity with basic programming concepts."--Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Booknews
"A resource for both novice and advanced programmers, explaining basic design goals of the language and application of the language in real- world development, and providing insight into why and how the language was designed and intended to be used. This third edition gives more in-depth treatment of newer language features, and examples on using some of the new APIs. This edition also contains expanded material on nested classes and garbage collection."--Arnold is staff engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)