Customer Review: The 1.st sentence of the preface says: "This book is intended as a reference rather than a tutorial". Well for an experienced Java programmer this is certainly true, but for a novice who has just grasped the fundamentals of the language and starts to write down his first lines of code this book is... more info
Customer Review: A nice little text with useful snippets of code, and advice on
applying them. However, the order of presentation can be a little
confusing. Also, some of the topics were a little beyond what I
needed it for, though that is not a bad thing. What I found annoying at times was... more info
Customer Review: This book covers the 'Awesome' topic of JavaBeans very well. In fact it also delves into the related topic of introspection (or reflection) plus Jar files. This is all done using graphically oriented beans. Although a couple chapters are tough going, the technology is not easy, so what did you... more info
Customer Review: I wonder if the authors have actually compiled and run the codes. It simply won't work. Take Chapter 20 (RMI) as an example: 1. In class StockMarket, the line Quote q = (Quote)Naming.lookup("HelloServer"); should be Quote q = (Quote)Naming.lookup("///QuoteServer");
