Java 6 Platform Revealed [Paperback]

John Zukowski (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1590596609 | ISBN-13: 978-1590596609 | Publication Date: July 25, 2006 | Edition: 1

This first book on Java 6 reveales all the latest, emerging new updates, additions, and new API such as JDBC 4, multi-Java scripting language support, annotation refinement, and much more. It’s written by highly acclaimed Java industry luminary, John Zukowski.

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About the Author

John Zukowski, IEEE, is a freelance writer and strategic Java consultant for JZ Ventures, Inc. He serves as the resident guru for a number of jGuru's community-driven FAQs (www.jguru.com). He is a Java columnist for Sun's Java Developer Connection, IBM's developerWorks, and JavaWorld. His latest books are Java Collections (Apress, 2001), Definitive Guide to Swing for Java 2 (Apress, 2000), and Mastering Java 1.4 (Sybex, 2002). He's also the author of Borland's JBuilder: No Experience Required (Sybex, 1997).

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (July 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590596609
• ISBN-13: 978-1590596609
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,661,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very early introduction to the new features of Java 6 SE (Mustang), October 13, 2006

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This review is from: Java 6 Platform Revealed (Paperback)

This is a very first introduction to the upcoming Java 6 Standard Edition (Mustang). The book is based on the Java 6 Drop 84/85 as of May 2006 (see page xvi) and is somewhat aware of drop 88 (see page 114). Reading it saves you the work of wading yourself through the new API and make your own comparisons.

John Zukowski's Java 6 is well organized and written in a very comprehensible style. The author's long track record of Java books clearly shows. Each chapter summarizes the changes/additions to the api by counting the relevant interfaces, classes, enums and throwables on a per package basis.

Seven out of the ten chapters treat the new features in a self contained and sufficiently complete introduction. The three exceptions are XML related technologies and here especially web services. They moved into the standard Java distribution. These are technologies that need a many hundred pages introduction - so be prepared to find here only hints and not a complete treatment. This is perfectly fined since such books exist already. On the other hand Java annotations are around since Java 5 SE. Here John Zukowski explicity repeats the achievements of the previous version and contrasts the new additions to it.

In summary I can wholeheartedly recommend this book as a quick start into the upcoming standard Java edition.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor, oh how I wished for a follow up to the O'Reilly Java 1.5 Notebook., February 14, 2008

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This review is from: Java 6 Platform Revealed (Paperback)

The title of this review pretty much says it all. Not a good book, though I suppose necessary at the time. I was really hoping for a follow up from O'Reilly to their excellent "Java 1.5 Tiger - A Developer's Notebook". As the man said "I just need the facts ..."

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll love it or hate it, depending on your experience level, August 3, 2007

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This review is from: Java 6 Platform Revealed (Paperback)

You'll love this book if you are already a pro up through the current Java release and don't want to - once again - wade through Gary Cornell's excellent but complete treatise on the Java language just to figure out what is new to the language in Java 6. You'll hate this book if you want to learn Java for the first time, starting with Java 6, and decide to start with this book. Zukowski assumes you know the current state of all of the APIs he is talking about and just want to know what is new. He does an excellent job explaining what has changed and shores up his explanations with non-trivial examples. I highly recommend it to current Java programmers. If you are not already a Java programmer, wait for Horstmann and Cornell's "Core Java, Volume I-Fundamentals (8th Edition)" to be released in September and learn Java 6 and Java programming the right way and from scratch.