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Java Garage (Garage Series)

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by Eben Hewitt
     
 
[ Enter your Java Garage ]
Where you do your work, not somebody else's
Where you get away, experiment, tinker
Where work is about passion, not rules
Serendipity, not same-old, same-old
Where discoveries are made
Where what you learn matters
Where you achieve greatness, not just competence
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[ Enter your Java Garage ]
Where you do your work, not somebody else's
Where you get away, experiment, tinker
Where work is about passion, not rules
Serendipity, not same-old, same-old
Where discoveries are made
Where what you learn matters
Where you achieve greatness, not just competence

Product Details

ISBN-13:
9780321246233
Publisher:
Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
Publication date:
08/09/2004
Series:
Garage Series
Pages:
461
Product dimensions:
6.96(w) x 9.26(h) x 0.88(d)

Meet the Author

About the AuthorEben Hewitt

Eben is a Sun Certified Java Programmer, Sun Certified Web Component Developer, Sun Certified Java Developer, and Senior Java Programmer/Analyst for Discount Tire Company in Scottsdale, AZ. He is the Garage Series Editor, and the author of four other programming books, including the acclaimed Java for ColdFusion Developers, and the forthcoming More Java Garage. He has been an invited speaker on Java at regional user groups.

Eben has a Master's Degree in Literary Theory, and had his first full-length, original play produced in New York City in 1996. Questions haunt him in this Champagne-light and Orwellian time:Who will win, Struts or Faces?What if they trade Johnson to the Yankees?At long last, have we left no sense of decency?

He and his family, Alison, Zoë, Mister Apache Tomcat, Doodle, and Noodle, burn to ashes every summer.

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Java Garage (Garage Series) 4 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 1 reviews.
Guest More than 1 year ago
The cover is amusing. You see, I'm in a technology startup working out of a garage. How iconic. And yes, I do my best work in the garage. But leaving that aside, the book offers a quick tour of Java 1.5. Which has been rebranded by Sun as J2SE 5.0. It shows how far applets have fallen. Remember in 1996 when Java came out and applets took centre stage for client side applications? Since then, they have been steadily deprecated. Now, out of 35 chapters, only one talks about them. A fair amount of the book talks about Java features predating 5.0. Like the chapter on Strings, which could mostly apply to Java 1.3 or even 1.2. Hewitt gives a quick walkthrough the major ideas of Java. The book deliberately makes no claim to be comprehensive. Instead, it might be seen as a reaction against, and an alternative to, the 1000 page tomes that try to cover all aspects of Java. Instead, you get here a text that can be easily assimilated.