Customer Review: If you're looking for the one-stop reference book --- this is it. But like other reference books, this one may sit, unused on your desk gathering dust. It's a painfully dry read guaranteed to put you to sleep at night.
Customer Review: This book has been invaluable for me in coming up to speed in Java and using NetBeans IDE. It helped me significantly in deciding between NetBeans and Eclipse for the IDE I would use in my development. I recommend it highly.
Customer Review: I found this book to be a great refresher. That is, having written Java in the past, writing mainly C# in the last 8 years, I needed to update my knowledge of Java since Java 1.2. The authors(s) do a good job of keeping the material from becoming too dry. Many programming books start with too much... more info
Customer Review: Warning to all buyers, the 3rd edition of this book does not include the J2EE library reference. While I realize this information is available online, having a printed form of library references is the primary reason I buy the "in a nutshell" series. Included in this book is a very general overview... more info
Customer Review: What can I say... if you do JDBC programming, you must have this book in your bookshelf. Great examples and super coverage of a very wide topic. You'll read it and continue to look back at it. Well worth the money!
Customer Review: With the increase of the popularity of loosely-coupled systems in enterprise integration and various serviced-oriented application architectures, messaging-based standards and strategies is geting more and more widely utilized. JMS is a JAVA based message framework (and standard), it allows... more info
Customer Review: This book is littered with errors and inconsistencies.
More than once the author shows a complete lack of understanding of the most basic design principles of the Java language and platform, like when he asserts that Java parameter passing uses pass by reference (it doesn't, ever, as is... more info
Customer Review: This book is a good, by example book for you to learn Java and understand how and why it includes certain features/functions in the language. If you are looking for a reference book, this one is a bit hard to navigate to find detailed information about class interfaces. Another thing it is lacking... more info
