Customer Reviews

Industrial Strength Java

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An industrial-strength table of contents! Inside - fails to deliver.

Heaps of missing code, typos. Some good information warrants the 2 stars.

I was extrememly disappointed with this book. It promised "Industrial Strength" advice but was a poorly written, confusing exposition of the author's inability to create an intelligent technical book. The book contained many typos and misleading references. The CD had to be cleaned before it was usable; and it did not contain all the code shown in the book. The book is clearly a hastily put together device with an eye-catching title that didn't deliver. It irks me to know the author probably made money. He should personally apologize to all his customers.

Despite my knowledge in C++ and experience in several programming languages, I could not quite understand the explanations of this book. This impression is enforced by the fact that I have read some Java books and the Javasoft on-line tutorial. The examples employed in the explanations are awfully rushed in (as the case of the Flying Pig in explanation about interface). This book appears that it has been written by rushed contributors. It lacks in consistency and has lots of spelling errors. The listings are so short and split across the text that I can hardly have picture of the overall text/discussion. Such a book may compromise the image of the publisher.

By the looks of the Table of Contents the book should be perfect. I also had a chance to browse it quickly in a bookstore and it look to be alright. When I looked it up for those topics I needed the truth came up. It does not explain matters. How could I be such a fool! Next time I will be very careful about those "Industrial Strengths" and the likes ... and probably about the publisher too.

if you are an experienced C++ programmer who want to pick up EVERY aspect of Java very quickly, this is perfect book that you can go over in 10 days. Some of the chapters are really good and easy to read. But if you expect to learn all decent tricks(I don't think you can expect this from any SINGLE BOOK), buy "Core Java" or "Java examples in a Nutshell" with "Maximum Java".

This book has about the best table of contents that I have seen. A quick glance indicates that this book covers just about every topic needed to write "industrial strength" Java application. Unfortunately, the content does not back it up.

The AWT chapters (AWT Basics and Advanced AWT) both deal with basic AWT topics. The cover page claims that the book covers Java 1.1, but the examples here all use the 1.0 event model. The chapters "Interfacing C/C++ and Java" and "JDBC" contain very little content (but the LARGE fonts used help them to stretch for many pages).

In general, the book tries to cover too much. Each of these chapters could (and usually do) take an entire book to cover. That would be okay if this book provided a solid introduction to each topic, but in most places it fails to do even that.

If you have money to blow way, buy this book.  This is the most erroneous Java book that I have ever purchased.

There is a thing called 'puff-code'.  A bunch of programmers get drunk and write computer programs afterward.  It seems like that this book was written by a bunch of college kids after the long weekend beer party.  There is nothing advanced about this book.  I believe that an intermediate Java programmer can do all the tricks mentioned in this book.  The only part that is thorough enough to be labeled 'Advanced' is the chapter 11, "Advanced networking".

Moreover, the CD that comes with this book is full of cheap and junkie programs that can hardly ever be useful.

I don't recommend this book to any serious Java programmers.

"Industrial Strengh Java" is a comprehensive, up-to-date book which details the creation of Java application frameworks and applets, and does so from the analysis phase to the coding phase. I consider this a strong point that sets it apart from many other Java books. It is geared toward intermediate Java developers, although those with an object-oriented background can understand the principles. However, people unfamiliar with Java syntax will have to decipher the code examples in some chapters because there are numerous errors. These include mislabeled section headers and whole lines of missing text. Also, the CD does not include all source code. I spoke with the author about this and he replied that he is setting up a web site to give access to the source. However he did not provide a URL or a time frame for completion