Effective Java 3rd Edition

by Joshua Bloch (Author)

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The Definitive Guide to Java Platform Best Practices–Updated for Java 7, 8, and 9

Java has changed dramatically since the previous edition of Effective Java was published shortly after the release of Java 6. This Jolt award-winning classic has now been thoroughly updated to take full advantage of the latest language and library features. The support in modern Java for multiple paradigms increases the need for specific best-practices advice, and this book delivers.

As in previous editions, each chapter of Effective Java, Third Edition, consists of several “items,” each presented in the form of a short, stand-alone essay that provides specific advice, insight into Java platform subtleties, and updated code examples. The comprehensive descriptions and explanations for each item illuminate what to do, what not to do, and why.

The third edition covers language and library features added in Java 7, 8, and 9, including the functional programming constructs that were added to its object-oriented roots. Many new items have been added, including a chapter devoted to lambdas and streams.

New coverage includes

Functional interfaces, lambda expressions, method references, and streams
Default and static methods in interfaces
Type inference, including the diamond operator for generic types
The @SafeVarargs annotation
The try-with-resources statement
New library features such as the Optional interface, java.time, and the convenience factory methods for collections

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	In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn to write computer programs in Java.	An Accessible Guide to the Java Language and Libraries	Explore the Java 9 Libraries and APIs in Depth	The Definitive Guide to Java Platform Best Practices—Updated for Java 7, 8, and 9
Author	Rogers Cadenhead	Cay S. Horstmann	Paul Deitel \| Harvey Deitel	Joshua Bloch
This book is for	Non-programmers, new programmers who think they hate this stuff, and experienced programmers who want to get up to speed swiftly with Java.	Programmers learning Java and Java programmers wanting to learn Java 9 features.	Experienced programmers who want to learn Java.	Experienced Java programmers
Learning Approach	Teaches Java programming from the ground up. It introduces the concepts in English instead of jargon with step-by-step examples of working programs you will create. Spend 24 hours with this book and you'll be writing your own Java programs, confident in your ability to use the language and learn more about it.	Quickly cuts to the chase, showing you what you need to know to solve a programming problem without lecturing about the superiority of one paradigm over another. It also present the information in small chunks, organized so that you can quickly retrieve it when needed.	Concepts are presented in fully tested programs, complete with code walkthroughs, syntax shading, code highlighting and program outputs. It features complete Java 9 programs with lines of proven code along with software-development tips to help build robust applications.	Each chapter consists of several “items,” each presented in the form of a short, stand-alone essay that provides specific advice, insight into Java platform subtleties, and updated code examples. The comprehensive descriptions and explanations for each item illuminate what to do, what not to do, and why.
About the Author(s)	Rogers Cadenhead is a programmer and author. He has written more than 20 books on programming and web publishing. He also publishes the Drudge Retort and other websites that receive more than 20 million visits a year.	Cay S. Horstmann is principal author of 'Core Java Volumes I and II'. He is a professor of computer science at San Jose State University and a Java Champion.	Deitel & Associates, Inc., is an internationally-recognized corporate training organization. Their texts have earned recognition due to their unique and cutting edge style of teaching.	Joshua Bloch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was formerly the chief Java architect at Google and a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features.

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About the Author

Joshua Bloch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was formerly the chief Java architect at Google, a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, and a senior systems designer at Transarc. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the Java Collections Framework. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in computer science from Columbia University.

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Paperback: 412 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 3 edition (January 6, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0134685997
ISBN-13: 978-0134685991
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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Robert Morea

Amazing Book

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2018

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This is an amazing book which contains tons of good practical advice for programmers, but more importantly explains the "why" behind various things you've always heard. There are things I feel I understand after reading this book which I previously only "knew" on the level of a teacher saying "take my word for it."

The book also lets you seen behind the scenes of Java programming in a way you possibly never have before, because Joshua Block is one of the developers behind Java itself, and all the main Oracle supported libraries. As such he can tell you that certain implementations in the standard Java libraries actually violate various best practices (either by accident or because those best practices hadn't emerged at the time of development). Almost always he will note that the problem cannot be fixed due to backward compatibility and has consequences to this day. Very few textbooks actually let you see inside details like this.

No other book I've read gives this kind of insight. And it's not even a hard read.

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B. Beck

A great explanation of not only the how, but the why

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2018

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I read this book with almost no background in Java. I've been programming for more than a decade, so picking up the semantics of a language like Java isn't particularly time consuming. What DOES take time is learning best practices and developing an understanding of what makes them best practices. This book delivers both again and again. More than any other object of study, it accelerated my understanding of the language.

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Travis Parks

Makes me a little unsure about Java

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2018

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There are several formatting issues (indentation) in the Kindle edition in almost every code snippet. Several years ago I read the previous edition; I learned this is the best book for relearning those little bits and pieces that make Java... Java. This edition is no different. I noticed this edition spends a lot of time discouraging several obsolete practices and framework classes. More what not to do than what to do. Has an overall negative vibe throughout.

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Tim Klein

Some minor printing defects

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2018

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Overall, the book is great and the quality is essentially brand new. However, I noticed some minor printing defects while reading the book.

For example:
- Some of the text throughout the book is printed either very heavy (with ink) or very light cause some distortion to the text. It is still readable, just slightly messy.
- Around the middle of the book, one of the pages must have been folded over during the cutting of the book as it left basically a protruding "ear' that I have to leave folded over otherwise it sticks out of the pages. It is somewhat small (about a square inch) so it is not very intrusive.
- There are multiple spelling errors throughout the book and one (major one: "Jave" instead of "Java") on the back cover. This may not be a printing error, but I lumped it in here anyway.

No big deal, but I felt it deserved 4 instead of the full 5 stars.

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Luke

Solid Improvement On A Great Resource

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2018

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Josh Bloch hasn't lost his touch! He's added many improvements to a valuable resource for Java developers.

1) Try with resources and AutoCloseable. This is an important edition to a Java dev's toolkit since Java 7 and it reduces the possibility of resource allocation and exception handling errors.
2) Stream, and lambdas: Bloch talks about best practices for the most important additions to Java since generics, including, interestingly enough, avoiding using Streams *too much*.
3) Optional and static methods in interfaces. Bloch asks developers to consider usage of Optional carefully for performance reasons.

Oddly enough, he doesn't discuss Java 9 modules that much, but personally I don't mind as I have issues with the way they were implemented.

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Porter Woodward

Great update to the essential classic

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2018

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Essential update to the classic. If you are like me and you'd been waiting for the update to this - covering additions in the Java language since it was written, here it is! As interesting as the additions are the removals. Instead of showing you the old, double-locked singleton - the advice is to not do that at all, and use dependency injection. I don't disagree.

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Archana Burra

I feel like I get something more out of it every time ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2018

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This comes in handy every day at work. I feel like I get something more out of it every time I read it. I'm a fairly new engineer but this is effectively the bible of Java (no pun intended)

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J. M. Morrison

This continues to be authoritative. It is the Bible ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2018

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This continues to be authoritative. It is the Bible on Java programming. I cite it often to my Java students. Get it and dog-ear it to death.

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Jack O'Hara

This book is an essential piece of reading for any junior level engineer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2019

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I'm nearly complete this book now, it has helped me immensely grow my Java skills as a developer. Much of the stuff taught in this book is very transferable to other realms of development. It is written in a style that is easy to follow and doesn't read like a technical specification. The code examples are the real gold in this book, very concise and helpful. There is a lot of content in this book which can make it difficult to get through but thankfully its written in a manner where you can pick up any chapter without context of the prior chapters.

I'd recommend this to anyone who has an alright knowledge of Java and wants to take it to the next level. I'd nearly even recommend it to non Java developers.

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Alex Craddock

Second copy of this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2019

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I have been working as a Java developer for 15 years now, have had multiple copies of this book, keep loaning them to people then changing jobs and forgetting about the book. It's a very good reference to have around and the updates of best practice with the newer language features are really useful.

Generally read the book cover to cover once, now it sits on my desk as a reference as there will always be good tips to look up when writing or refactoring code.

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Paul L

Pretty good, but a basic understanding of Java is needed beforehand

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 9, 2019

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Pretty good.
I'm new to Java, having come from C++.
There are a few things in it which seen to make a leap of faith in your understanding. But generally it's pitched at the right level.

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Diana N.

As promised

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2018

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Very useful and comprehensive
I love how it gets updated with each new version of the Java language

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Disappointed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2019

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I was disappointed with this order as the book arrived damaged. It had pages that were wrinkled up, as though water had fallen on them and had dried. Given that I paid for a new copy, this is not the condition I expected.

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Arvind Dagur

really good one

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2019

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in depth

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Ajay

Good quality and value for money.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2019

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Good quality and value for money.

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MDK

Takes a competent Java developer to the next level

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2018

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Great book for anyone moderately competent with Java who wants to delve even deeper and learn the absolute best practices for using the language.

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Barry

A good solid book on software engineering for java 8 developers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2018

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An excellent book that's as much abour good engineering principals as it is about java.

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Sabertoothhamster

Essential reading for any dev

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2018

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Essential reading for any dev

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Adam Goodman

Fantastic book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 27, 2018

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Absolutely one of the best books available for the component developer who wants to work right at the edge of performance in Java.

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Michael

A must book for Java developers!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2019

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Always refresh and remember all the small but really important things from this book.

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Carlos Antonio

Great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2018

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Great book to be reread oftentimes.

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Martin

best buy!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2019

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bought the book, read it through and now im a millinaire :)

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Nikolas

Niedrige Druckqualität

Reviewed in Germany on August 23, 2018

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Das Buch an sich ist fantastisch. Leider ist die Druckqualität ziemlich schlecht. An vielen Stellen ist der Text nicht richtig gedruckt und das Papier ist durchgeghend durchsichtig.