Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:28:38 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Chan & Lee books" Message-ID: <199901080428.VAA26549@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901072143090.7271-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <199812231322.JAA08987@systemics.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901072143090.7271-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> > > Umm, they are THE Java Reference books... > > > > The books that Nate recommends are in the javasoft series. > > The ones I found at amazon are below. Be (a)ware that they > > are about $54 each, being hardback :-( > > My situation has changed, I suddenly may find some funds to buy Java > books (for a course). I squirreled away this post (for obvious reasons) > and now I have to ask a question. > > Seeing as Java is mutating like a heavily nuked protozoa, and these > books have dates of 1996-1997, are they really up to date anymore? They are up-to-date on JDK1.1, but not JDK1.2. However, they are still *great* books, and cover almost all of the 'basic' library. > If they describe things like an ancient event handling mechanism (that > deprecated for new software) its not going to be of extreme help. Nope, JDK1.1 is the new event model. > If it completely skips swing, well, that's not a minor omission > either. No Swing either, but there are *NO* good books on Swing, given that the final release was made about a month ago. > Can > someone who *has* these books give me some more reasons (that I can pass > along to the person writing the check) for why these aren't obsolete > (and if there's little chance to a new revision coming out 6 hours after > the purchase is made)? Because they are *THE* best reference for most of the core JDK stuff. Stuff like Swing and the Collections API are not covered, but you won't find any good books on either of these. > Thanks. Any rumors about new editions are welcome. I just looked on Amazon.com,and 'The Java Class Libraries: 1.2 Supplement' is supposed to be released any day now. I suspect with these 3 books (which would unfortunately be a hefty chunk of change) you'd have about everything you need. I can not think of *ANY* better Java reference book, and I've looked at dozens and dozens of them the last 3 years. > > Patrick Chan, Rosanna Lee, Doug Kramer > > > > The Java(tm) Class Libraries, Second Edition, Volume 1: > > java.io, java.lang, java.math, java.net, java.text, java.util Vol 1 > > > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201310023/o/qid=914418229/sr=2-1/002-9203115-8455054 > > > > ==================== > > Patrick Chan, Rosanna Lee > > The Java Class Libraries : Java.Applet, Java.Awt, Java.Beans (Vol 2) > > > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201310031/ref=sim_books/002-9203115-8455054 > > > > ==================== > > Patrick Chan, Rosanna Lee > > > > The Java Class Libraries : An Annotated Reference (Java Series) > > > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201634589/ref=sim_books/002-9203115-8455054 Don't bother with this one, as it is superceded by Vol1 and Vol2 above. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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