Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days: Professional Reference Edition - Hardcover

Lemay, Laura; Cadenhead, Rogers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0672320614 ISBN 13: 9780672320613

Publisher: QUE, 2001

Synopsis

Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days continues to be one of the most popular, best-selling Java tutorials on the market. It has been acclaimed for its clear and personable writing, for its extensive use of examples, and for its logical and complete organization. The Professional Reference Edition of the book includes an extra seven chapters covering advanced topics like object serialization, remote method invocation, accessibility, security, JavaBeans, JDBC, and advanced data structures – as well as a 200-page reference section detailing the most commonly used aspects of the Java language. This edition of the book has been updated and revised to cover version 1.3 of the Java 2 Standard Edition SDK, and the book's CD-ROM includes a fully functional Java compiler, as well as the book¿s source code and a collection of third-party Java development tools and utilities.

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Review

With many books dedicated to advanced Java programming topics you need a firm foundation in the Java language before they're useful. Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days provides those foundations. The original version of this book proved popular and thankfully this new version is written in the same easy style. However this time round it covers Java 2 version 1.3 (so Swing replaces AWT, for example when writing visual interfaces) and adds sections on technologies which have subsequently become important.

Despite the name there are actually 28 sections--the last seven being intended to occupy a bonus week. It deals with writing servlets, JSP, reading XML files and other Java extras. The majority of the book is a well-structured, lucid course in Java fundamentals with plenty of discussion of Java features and best practice. The authors go as far as line numbering example code for easier reference in the text. The authors are particularly strong on areas where programmers are often weak. The section on error handling for example is excellent, with examples of both good and bad practice--useful even though your code never has any errors.

The accompanying CD contains all the example code, the SDK 1.3 and Forte for Java (Community Edition)--though you'll get more from the book if you input the examples yourself. Overall, Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 In 21 Days is the first book any budding Java programmer should buy. --Steve Patient

About the Author

Rodgers Caldenhead is a writer and Web publisher who has written 10 books on Internet-related topics, including Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours and Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft FrontPage 2000 in 24 Hours, but not Sams Teach Yourself to Tell Time in 10 Minutes. He maintains this book's official Web site at http://www.java21pro.com/.

Laura Lemay is a technical writer and author. After spending six years writing software documentation for various computer companies in Silicon Valley, she decided that writing books would be much more fun. In her spare time, she collects computers, email addresses, interesting hair colors, and non-running motorcycles. She is also the perpetrator of Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week and Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days.

Edition details

• Publisher: QUE
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0672320614
• ISBN 13: 9780672320613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 816