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Special Edition Using Java 1.1

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It is very thorough. Almost everything important about java is in there including JDBC, JNI, Java Beans, Servlets, security management, even the specification of the virtual machine and most is explained well understandble. It is the best java book I ever saw!

This is the worst java book I've ever read. The book is unorganized and the content is not suitable for the beginner at all.

The companion CD-ROM is useless.

If the authors would like to publish the new version for JDK 1.2, there will be a lot of works they need to get accomplished.

Simple words from me.... Don't buy this book.

Covers alot of fancy staff but has a great lack of contents. It seems like the author has rushed through the book just to fill it out with the Java 1.1 features and forgot to describe the import basics behind the language. There's now way you're gonna be a Java guru by reading this book!

This book is poor in contents, i have the second edition and is the same that third, i bought this book thinking that it would be as good as the second version, but it is almost the same...
If you want to buy some book about jdk 1.1 buy the java class libraries.

Java 1.1 introduces several major features to Sun's Java products, such as Java Beans, JAR files, and more. This book provides good coverage of these new tools and techniques.

Java 1.1 also brings on several changes in the language itself. There are new methods that improve on, and replace, older methods. Sun's Java compiler generates warnings when a method has been deprecated. The examples in this book have NOT been updated, so you will need another book to teach you to develop proper Java 1.1 source code.

This book is a learning book more than a reference. It covers programming techniques that other books frequently skim over. I was impressed with the wide range of topics such as database, network, graphics, CORBA, and JavaScript. I only wish that it presented these topics with Java 1.1 features and techniques.

If you already are familiar with Java 1.1 programming and would like to familiarize yourself with the new Java 1.1 tools, you may find this reference to be helpful.

If you are planning to learn the Java language from this book, then you will be disappointed to learn that some of these programs use old techniques specific to Java 1.0. Java 1.1 introduces several new classes and programming techniques which you will want to know, so consider another book.

Personally, it amazes me to see how many books I have purchased over the years that were thrown together to meet a tight publishers deadline. While this book has many pages of useful information, it is not entirely up to date. Even the CD-ROM comes with the 1.0 version of Java, not the 1.1 version.

I was pleased to see that the entire text of the book is on the CD-ROM, along with the text of other QUE books, Using JavaScript and Using J++. I gave the book an extra point for this feature alone.

I was predisposed to like this book after spending half an hour browsing through the other Java books at the local bookstore, but I was disappointed. I wasted a lot of time because of the mistakes in the book. For instance, the book refers to 3 directories on the CD-ROM - but they're actually zipped files, not directories. And the appendix refers to \quebooks on the CD-ROM, but the actual directory is \virtual. And the output on page 130 doesn't match listing 8.3 - the words "now" and "But" are missing. And the HTML for some of the CD-ROM is full of blank lines; if you include it in a file on your hard drive, you'll want to edit it down for readability. But the worst mistake of all is the inclusion of Java 1.02 on the CD-ROM instead of 1.1. The publisher, when pinned down, referred to this as a "fairly common" problem, but claim they don't have any CD-ROMs with 1.1 on them. The conclusion is that ALL the CD-ROMs have 1.02 - and 1.02 is useless with the code given in the book. You have to download 1.1 from Sun yourself, which will take three-quarters of an hour with a 28.8 modem. And that's not all: the chapter about installation is poorly organized because it skips back and forth between Microsoft, Sun, and Mac installation instructions. If you're very patient and are tolerant of mistakes, you'll find this book useful. But if you're short of time, you'd be better advised to buy a different book.

This book effectively doubles as an introductory book and a decent reference book when you become more confident and acomplished. It covers all the basics plus a lot of the advanced stuff not even mentioned in "..21 days ..." (eg, Networking comms, client/server code, object serialisation, CORBA support, JDBC, RMI, JavaBeans, JAR files, and a complete API reference section. It also comes with J++ 1.0 free ( in case you haven't already got it :) )
It retailed in Australia for $90 - so perform the appropraite calcs to get an approx cost for where you are ...
I found it very useful, but as another comp.lang.java subscriber said, 1 book is rarely enough. However, I'm sure this book will give you a sound footing in Java (and don't forget about the docs/tutes at the various Java web sites ...)

The series of mistakes began from the chapter about installation. If you follow their steps, you will never get JDK running. Most of the sample code from the book refers to JDK 1.0. There are lot of changes between 1.0 and 1.1 and that brought me much trouble to figure out what's wrong