Customer Reviews

Java 2 Platform Unleashed with CDROM

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This book certainly has some very good parts, but others are incredibly poor. I have to admit that 'unleashing' Java must be a huge job, but still. Like a reader said, this book tries to be too many books in one.

I bought it as a reference, but it's hardly usable for that purpose. When I look up methods, I often only find them mentioned in the text, without a single word of explanation.

It's a good book if you only have very basic skills of Java, and want to find out what you can really do with it (if more than 1000 pages in 56 chapters don't discourage you). In that way 'Java Explored' might be a better title.

Lots of good information but very frustrating when examples don't work as advertised. Had lots of problems with code examples in chapter 38/39.

This book is a wonderful book for introducting you to ALL of the elements, yet some aren't explained very well. The first 22 chapters are very good and really cover a lot of topics including: making your own UNZIP program, drag and drop, File I/O, Printing, Swing, Window Development, and Multimedia.

However, as the book goes on, the quality starts to decrease. In Chapters 23 through 36 I had a very difficult time understanding the topics. He did a rather poor job on the Network Programming and didn't do well on the Java Beans section either. In Part 9 he talked about distributed applications, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think it was one of the best sections in the whole book. In Part 10, Database Programming, he slipped to an all time low. I have done Database Programming before and it has always been simple and easy to understand. He has done an absolutely, positively horrible job of writing the database section. If you are interested in Database Programming, I would definetely recommend AGAINST buying this book. The rest of the book was very rushed and uninformative.

Overall Summary: -50% Great, 50% Horrible -Great Reference in the Back, even though it is exactly like the Jdk 1.2 docs, It is still nice to have it right there -Lots of Samples, if you like doing the samples this could definetely hinder your progress, but it also helps for understanding the code -People say that the code is very buggy, I think that it is fine, there was one chapter, (The first Swing Example), that I didn't get to work, that was all -I would recommend a solid understanding of core Java 2 Development to read this book, and experience in other programming languages

When buying this book, think of it as if it has half as many pages, because that is what you are buying, half the pages, because only half are good. GREAT for Introducing you to the ENTIRE JAVA 2 API, but lacking in explanation.

Well, No book is perfect.

I purchased this book many months ago and have found that it is barely better than viewing the Java API docs on-line. Thus, it is almost never removed from the shelf to help in coding situations as there is always a better book available. I also purchased Jaworski's Java 2 Certification book which is also a disaster of a book with numerous errors. Given these two unsuccessful Jaworksi buys, I think I will avoid books containing his name from now on....

If you have done some Java programming and want to know more about Java this is a good book to buy. The author covers an incredible array of topics including Graphics, Networking, and Swing. After reading this book you will comprehend how to use Java in many different areas of programming.

There are some errors in the code and some chapters are boring. But overall this book is an excellent buy due to the many topics covered. Especially if you are new to Java programming.

Note: Make sure that you actually have some knowledge of Java before reading this book otherwise you will have a hard time understanding Jaworski's writing.

This book provides a very good overview of all java features. It covers everything in a very easy way, but detail is missing in some cases. Author has tried his best to provide useful links to related sites and keep the things simple.

Good samples and easy to read !!! Must read this book !!!

Has all the buzz words not enough info. It will make a good reference book.

50% of the pages are ceovered with documentation , he explains every thing in short and in complete , JDBC he uses IDS and stuff , which is quite boring .

I suggest not to buy this book .

try the listing 17.15 on p453, you would get a compiling error: constant expression required.