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Core Java 2, Volume II: Advanced Features (5th Edition)
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Author: Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Cay Horstmann
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0130927384
Publisher: Pearson Higher Education (10 December, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 10,341
Average Customer Rating: 3.79 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Useless to the professional ones.
Even though this is a more than one thousand pages' book its chapters are actually only intoductions to very important topics: multithreading, collections, networking, database connection via JDBC, AWT, swing, security and internationalisation. It is worth the cost ? It depends: if you are an absolute beginner, as I was, you will not regret to have spent your money.
But if you are an experienced Java programmer who works on projects of the real world you will probably look elsewhwere. For instance: if you are involved in making sophisticated Graphic User Interfaces (GUI), notwithstanding the book devotes nearly one third of its pages to Advanced AWT and Swing, it is better to switch directly to the far more comprehensive five 'Graphic Java 2' volumes of one thousand pages each by David Geary. Or if you are working in an enterprise three layer client-server project interacting with a DBMS, the informations you find in the respective chapter are simply commonplace; books (not a single one) on servlets, JDBC and Enterprise Java Bean will be more useful.
Have the authors miss the target ? No, so wide is the Java world that it is impossible to enclose everything in one or two books.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Used for an Advanced CS course - it's Great!
I use this book (and its Volume I) for a course I teach at the University of Delaware. It's wonderul. It's definatly written with the experienced programmer with lots of experience but none in Java in mind. You can really pick Java up quickly with this book and it makes a good reference material as well. If you already know how to program and want to learn Java and experience the powerful features of the language and the APIs and class libraries that come with the Java 2 SDK, then this is the book for you.
Rating: 4 out of 5
DO bother with this book
In the three months I've been programming Java I've gotten a decent handle on the basics, and even on some more advanced concepts (inner classes, design patterns, etc.). So if you're at that level, I think that like me you will find this book to be helpful.For instance, it took me just an hour or two going over this book's section on Advanced Swing, and I was creating a tree view of files/folders for my current work project. Like Flanagan's "Java Examples in a Nutshell", it's a good intermediate book with lots of code, but with more explanations.
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