Java Gems: Jewels from Java Report

Java Gems: Jewels from Java Report

by Dwight Deugo, Donald G. Firesmith
     
 

The support of Java Report by the pioneers of the language has always made it the source for Java development. From the very beginnings of Java, Java Report was there, examining each new aspect of the language with a clear independent eye. Now, Dwight Deugo, the editor of Java Report, has gathered the most important articles from the first year of the magazine.

Overview

The support of Java Report by the pioneers of the language has always made it the source for Java development. From the very beginnings of Java, Java Report was there, examining each new aspect of the language with a clear independent eye. Now, Dwight Deugo, the editor of Java Report, has gathered the most important articles from the first year of the magazine. Written by a savvy Who's Who of industry experts, Java Gems covers today's most important aspects of Java development. Top writers and developers walk you through the topic areas that are essential to today's Java developers, including multitasking, design patterns, class libraries, persistence, distributed computing, and Java vs C++.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher
'Each of the articles is what we would expect from a Java Report article. Clearly written, a good grasp of the subject from the authors ... all written for serious Java developers, for all of us folks who are really developing Java applications ... if you have been writing Java applications for a while, and you want some more background information about Java or to learn specific techniques, this is a good book which I can recommend.' Hubert Klein Ikkink, Developers Review
Peter N. Roth

Java Gems

I imagine that I'm the last programmer who hasn't written a line of Java code. I hear there is a large demand for Java programmers, but I haven't gone looking for a Java job, and don't plan to. I fail to see how I can make use of an interpreted language for my primary deliverables -- engineering number-crunching applications. So whatever am I doing reviewing a Java book?

For the same reasons you should read it.

The first is readability. The first article I turned to in Java Gems: Jewels from Java Report, edited by Dwight Duego, was a comparison of C++ and Java by Robert Martin, whose writing I have admired for a few years now. Martin is the current editor of the C++ Report, and sets out to compare the languages sans the usual language flame wars one encounters on Usenet newsgroups. Martin likes both Java and C++, and points out the weaknesses and strenths of each language from his view as one who enjoys programming in any language.

The second to read this book is that it can show you how to improve your web site. I confess that most of the goings-on on the Web are still a mystery to me, but I do have a web site whence to market software. Anything that will help my customers is therefore A Good Thing(tm). The gem by Lowell Kaplan demonstrates a way to get Java to talk to CGI scripts, albeit in code presented in what looks like 4-pt. type.

A third reason is that I like to know what's going on. The text is current; articles considered for republication appeared between March 1996 and June 1997. Okay, to an engineer this is current; to someone on wherever the bleeding edge is, this is paleontology. But it was interesting to note that there are a few articles dealing with the notion of persistent Java objects. I would hope persistence is a "solved problem" by now?

Finally, Java Gems: Jewels from Java Report is a convenient book. I found that I could jump in anywhere, read an article, and then leave the book until I had some spare time. Every article is supplemented with e-mail addresses and URLs for follow-up, and most of them have a fair amount of Java code to read.

Two cautions: First, because these articles are gems, they are short; the coverage of a topic is brief and to the point. Second, most of the authors are Java True Believers, so set your hype filter to stun before diving in.-- Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books

Product Details

ISBN-13:
9780521648240
Publisher:
SIGS
Publication date:
02/13/1998
Series:
Sigs Reference Library Series , #10
Pages:
248
Product dimensions:
5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.55(d)

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