Customer Reviews

The Java™ Tutorial Continued: The Rest of the JDK™

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This is one of the most comprehensive tutorials that you'll find on Java - almost every possible topic is covered, from AWT, GUI & Swing, to networking, rmi, and corba. That said, I'd advise you to check out Sun's site first.... The tutorial series the book is based on is available there for free, and should give you a good idea of whether or not the book is for you. For some, it will certainly be better than a large download and reading it off the screen.

I bypassed AWT knowing that SWING was on it's way. This book made it simple for me to create great looking GUI's for my apps. Follows the same style of "The Java Tutorial" Second Edition.

This volume largely contains topics newer to Java. The topics includes Collection, Internationalization, 2D, JavaBeans, IDL, JDBC, RMI, Security, JNI, Reflection, JARs, Extensions, and Servlets.

This new volume follows the tradition of good writing from the original volume.The book is extremely readable and a great source to learn from. Unlike the first volume, which I recommend only to beginner, even experienced Java developers will find tutorials in this volume that will make it worth the purchase price. It is an excellent book for programmers of all levels of experience.

Looks like a good tutorial book - however, it's now several generations out of date, which is a problem. Sun keeps updated copies of the books on line, but the limits of printing mean that the bound volumes don't get updated. This covers Java JDK 1.2 - NOT JAVA JDK 5 (the current release). Since there are significant changes between the revisions, this is of limited utility these days.

Excellent book - detailed, comprehensive and yet easy to read and understand. I highly recommend this book for learning and implementing Java.

An excellent book - very informative but should be seen as a book to build on the foundation of the Java tutorial - edition 3 or something similar as the content assumes a good foundation of java basics.