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The Java(TM) Class Libraries Poster, Enterprise Edition, v1.2 (Java Series)
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by Patrick Chan and Rosanna Lee
Sales Rank: 398433
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List Price: $5.95
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Paperback: 2 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR June 19, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201716232
ISBN-13: 978-0201716238
Product Dimensions:
12 x 10 x 0.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
Product Review
As noted by coauthor Patrick Chan in his interview with Amazon.com, programmers spend much of their time writing little programs that do nothing but explain to them the behavior of certain aspects of a language. Java programmers, working as they do with a relatively new, evolving language, spend more time than most writing experimental programs that help them figure out particular classes.
With this book, Chan, Rosanna Lee, and Douglas Kramer attempt to save you the trouble of all that futzing around. Each class in the java.io.*, java.lang.*, java.lang.reflect.*, java.math.*, java.net.*, java.text.*, java.util.*, and java.util.zip.* packages gets explored thoroughly in these pages. In each entry you'll find not only the pedestrian inheritance chart and statement of syntax but a lengthy, lucid discussion of the class (or member), too. Best of all, each entry comes with a working example of how the class or member is used in real life.
The authors, all affiliated with Sun Microsystems in Java's earliest days, know their stuff. They have created an omnibus tool that should prove immensely valuable to any Java programmer who wants to get the most out of the language. --David Wall
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
This poster gives you an overall view of the classes in the Java(tm) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, v1.2. There are a total of 357 public classes and interfaces within the 21 packages in this first release of the platform. For each package, all of the classes and interfaces in the package are displayed, showing their relationships to each other. If a class subclasses a class from another package or if a class implements an interface from another package, these "foreign" classes and interfaces are also shown. Foreign classes and interfaces are marked in such a way as to easily determine which package they actually belong to. Also indicated is whether each class is final or abstract. Not shown: all errors and exceptions.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This review is from: The Java Class Libraries, Volume 1: java.io, java.lang, java.math, java.net, java.text, java.util (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)
There is a reason this book is rated so highly. It is worth every penny you will spend on it. I would pay double the price, but don't tell the publisher. This is my favorite reference book, and my Java programming would not be as productive without this book. The book is huge, because it covers every class within the standard library (io, net, lang, etc.). As much as I appreciate the O'Reilly Nutshell book, this is far superior to that book. This has something Nutshell doesn't. Context. Not only does it have all the classes with all their methods, it puts each method in context. It shows you how they are used by providing relevant example code and descriptions. And the descriptions in the book are wonderful. You will look up a class and find a related class that will work better for your needs. I especially recommending getting this book for a team of developers. Leave the book in the room for office use. If you can so afford, get it for each developer. This is like the Post-it note. You would never live without it, even though you managed and may have even done well before it came along.
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The Java(TM) Class Libraries Poster, Enterprise Edition, v1.2 (Java Series)
List Price: $5.95
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