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Summary: Nothing can describe Java classes better
Review: I strongly recommend this book to all Java users of all levels because no other book describes all classes of java.lang, java.io, java.net, java.util, java.text and java.math packages better. Every class, every method and every exception is explained by very understandable language with good and useful examples. There is no Java language problem you cannot solve with this book.
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Summary: The best
Review: I've been programming professionally for almost 10 years and this is the best book I've ever used. If I could only own one book for Java this would be it. The examples are insightful and clear.
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Summary: The best
Review: I've been programming professionally for almost 10 years and this is the best book I've ever used. If I could only own one book for Java this would be it. The examples are insightful and clear.
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Summary: My desert island book series
Review: If you could design your own Java reference series, what would you include? How about: - An plain English explanation of each class and method.
- Sample code for every class and method.
- Intelligent organization that enables you to find a given class or method quickly.
- A comprehensive, well-organized index that thinks like you do. This summarizes the content of this book and the other two in the series and explains why they are the three books I wouldn't dream of programming in Java without. (I've been a professional Java developer since 1996.) Buy the book and make your life easier.
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Summary: What the API documentation should have been
Review: If you do serious work in Java, then you already know that the online Javadoc documentation is incomplete, often inaccurate and entirely lacking any high-level discussion of the API. This book is everything that the online API documentation is not. Of course, if you do serious work in Java, then you already have this book.
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Summary: Absolutely essential
Review: If you only buy one Java book, buy this one (and then buy the other two volumes). The examples are the best I have ever seen in an API or class library document.
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Summary: A book you must have if you want to know what's new for 1.2
Review: If you want to know what is new in JDK1.2 Class Library, this is the book you should have.
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Summary: Gotta have it
Review: If your a Java 2 developer then you need this on your bookshelf. It contains an enormous amount of useful information, examples, etc. for all the classes in java.applet, java.awt, and java.beans. You gotta have it!
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Summary: Excellent Reference Book
Review: Java Class Libraries is an excellent reference manual. Most of the methods are given with examples which helps a lot while you are deep in coding and just want to know how to do a particular thing in Java. One of the best code-time companion.
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Summary: Provides updates relating to Volume One only
Review: Just to be precise, this supplement only provides updates regarding java packages in Volume One, not Volumes One and Two both, as one reader indicated. The authors were thoughtful enough to include complete class summaries for those classes which were revised in any way. Thus, they did a fine job in compiling the supplement.
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