Practical Java Programming Language Guide - Softcover

Haggar, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201616467 ISBN 13: 9780201616460

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2000

Synopsis

This book does for Java what Scott Meyers' classic Effective C++ did for C++: identifies the key practices and rules that enable good developers to become great developers. IBM Java expert Peter Haggar brings together 68 rules for writing better Java 2 code, complete with insightful discussions and real-world examples. These are the "rules of thumb" expert developers have discovered: guidelines that consistently lead to clear, correct, and efficient code. Haggar focuses on the key issues virtually every Java developer faces, from general techniques (such as when to use polymorphism and when not to use method overloading); to working with objects, exception handling, performance, multithreading, classes, interfaces, and beyond. Haggar has a remarkable talent for crystallizing a problem and solution, and communicating it in words and code. The result: a book that can help any Java developer get dramatically better results -- fast.

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About the Author

Peter Haggar is an acknowledged expert on Java programming and a Senior Software Engineer at IBM. He has a broad range of programming experience, having worked on development tools, class libraries, and operating systems. At IBM, he works on emerging Java technology and is currently focusing on embedded and real-time Java. Peter is also a frequent technical speaker on Java technology at numerous industry conferences. He received a B.S. in computer science from Clarkson University.

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From the Back Cover

Written by an "in-the-trenches" expert on the Java™ programming language, this book provides readers with a practical approach to producing correct, efficient, and robust code.

This broad-ranging guide can help programmers with varying levels of expertise to understand Java more completely and to maximize their coding effectiveness. This book's rules-based format examines 68 key topics on how to improve your code, providing crisp, well-written examples and solutions. All of the examples and solutions are accompanied by thorough explanations for achieving a working solution of your own. This practical approach to programming and design describes the best practices used by experienced programmers. Intended for the intermediate to advanced Java programmer, the Practical Java™ Programming Language Guide is organized into individual lessons, so it can either be read from cover to cover or by individual topic.

Topics discussed include:

• Objects and equality
• Exception handling
• Performance
• Multithreading
• Classes and interfaces

If you want to spend less time debugging, optimizing, and tuning your code, this example-oriented, down-to-earth guide is full of practical techniques for exploiting the Java programming language. The 68 topics were chosen based on their relevance to effective and efficient programming practices. A special section focusing on performance provides valuable insights into Java performance issues and useful performance improvement techniques. If you want real-world, sound advice on building applications using the Java programming language, this book is essential reading.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201616467
• ISBN 13: 9780201616460
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312