Mastering Java 2 [Mass Market Paperback]

John Zukowski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 21, 1998 | Series: Mastering

The book that Arthur van Hoff, Chief Technology Officer at Marimba, calls "an essential tool for all serious Java developers" has just been updated for the latest version of Java. First-time Java programmers get an overview of Java language constructs and Java applets. Explore Java classes, packages, modifiers, GUIs, exception handling, animation, and multithreading. Experienced Java developers will master JavaBeans, distributed objects, RMI, serialization, security and cryptography, plus all of the newest APIs.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 1244 pages
• Publisher: Sybex Inc (August 21, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782121802
• ISBN-13: 978-0782121803
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,416,709 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing; buy a different book, August 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mastering Java 2 (Mass Market Paperback)

A thick book that covers too many topics, from programming syntax to CORBA, JDBC, and servlets, all superficially, many poorly. The hard-to-understand explanations provide little insight into the topic areas covered.

One has a sense that the author rushed to print just to be the first with a Java 2 title, by adding a few Java 2 items to a Java 1.1 text. Some chapters use Applets (Java 1.1), others Japplets (Java 2). Much of the Java 2 material is just filler--listings of the class definitions. Important Java 2 Swing concepts such as the various "panes" that are used to overlay graphics (content pane, glass pane, etc.) are not discussed nor does the book mention overriding the paintComponent() method for doing graphics.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Advanced topics Same as Developers Handbook, November 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mastering Java 2 (Mass Market Paperback)

The advanced topics are same as developer's handbook by Roberts and Heller.

I have been through both the books and noticed that the chapters on advanced topics of Java are identical (word to word,figure to figure). Both the books have same wordings, diagrams,tables and even the same coding examples. I find it very hard to believe that different authors would write end up writing using same wordings, diagrams and think of even the same coding example.

I am giving below the comparisons for ready reference :

Mastering Java 2 | Java 2 Dev. Handbook

By John Zukowski | By Simon Roberts, Philip Heller

1. Ch 21. JDBC API | CH 11. Database Connectivity

2. Ch 24. Security | Ch 18. Security

3. Ch 25. RMI | Ch 12. Persistence and RMI

4. Ch 26. Java & CORBA | Ch 13. Java & CORBA connectivity

I gave up after this. Is this a strange coincidence or is someone cheating here (Either one of the authors is cheating or Sybex is cheating by selling the same material under different titles and using different author names and making more money). I know Sybex has the copyrights but is it ethical? And why are the authors silent or they just care about the money or maybe they are not the real authors in the first place? Just wanted to spread the awareness.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Incorrect references to Swing includes, January 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Mastering Java 2 (Mass Market Paperback)

I bought this book yesterday and am returning it tomorrow after realizing that a lot of the example contained within it are incorrect and do not even compile. The book has references to: import com.sun.java.swing.*; which after some investigation I realized must have been renamed to import javax.swing.*; so any references to swing components in the example code do not work. A friend recommended "The Complete Reference - Java 2 - Third Edition" by Naughton / Schildt as an excellent book.