The Java Programming Language Third Edition

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Direct from the creators of the Java^TMThe Java^TM Programming Language is an indispensible resource for novice and advanced programmers alike.

Developers around the world have used previous editions to quickly gain 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 conver 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 indispensible 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.

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Direct from the creators of the Java^TM programming language, this Third Edition of The Java^TM Programming Language is a valuable resource for both novice and advanced programmers. More than 100,000 developers who programmed with C, C++, Smalltalk, or other high-level languages have used this book to get a concise, intelligent, and deep understanding of the Java programming language.

This book is what you need to understand the basic design goals of the language and the application of the language in real-world development. It provides unique insights into why and how the language was designed and intended to be used.

The authors describe the latest version of the language, as defined by The Java^TM Language Specification, Second Edition and implemented in version 1.3 of the Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition. This third edition has been structured to give more in-depth treatment of the newer language features as well as informative examples on using some of the new APIs.

New and/or revised in this edition:

- more details on language features, including an expanded section on nested classes
- more comprehensive treatment of garbage collection and related programming issues
- coverage of new APIs, such as collections and internationalization

Thoroughly revised from start to finish, this edition fully covers the features of the current release of the Java programming language and class libraries. The book serves as a tutorial introduction to the language and essential libraries as well as a reference.

Experienced programmers will find this new edition to be a valuable reference and will gain new insights into the subtleties of the language. Novice and intermediate programmers will benefit from the valuable examples and clear explanations of language and library features. Make sure you understand the contents of this book before you begin any serious development for the Java platform.

Ken Arnold, a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, is a leading expert in object-oriented design and implementation, one of the original architects of the Jini^TM technology, and the lead engineer of Sun's JavaSpaces^TM technology. He has written extensively on C and C++ topics for UNIX Review, and is a leading expert in object-oriented design, C, and C++.

James Gosling is a Fellow and Vice President at Sun Microsystems, the creator of the Java programming language, and one of the computer industry's most noted programmers. He is the 1996 recipient of Software Development's "Programming Excellence Award." He previously developed NeWS^TM, Sun's network-extensible window system, and was a principal in the Andrew project at Carnegie-Mellon University, from which he holds a PhD in Computer Science.

David Holmes is a Senior Research Scientist at the Cooperative Research Centre for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC Pty Ltd), located in Brisbane, Australia. His work with Java technology has focused on concurrency and synchronization support in the language and virtual machine. He has presented tutorials on concurrency and design at numerous international object-oriented programming conferences. He completed his PhD at Macquarie University, Sydney, in 1999.

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