From owner-freebsd-java Thu Jan 7 20:29:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27318 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:29:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27313 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:29:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA05363; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:28:39 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA26549; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:28:38 -0700 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:28:38 -0700 Message-Id: <199901080428.VAA26549@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chuck Robey Cc: Ian Grigg , nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Chan & Lee books" In-Reply-To: References: <199812231322.JAA08987@systemics.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Umm, they are THE Java Reference books... > > > > The books that Nate recommends are in the javasoft series. > > The ones I found at amazon are below. Be (a)ware that they > > are about $54 each, being hardback :-( > > My situation has changed, I suddenly may find some funds to buy Java > books (for a course). I squirreled away this post (for obvious reasons) > and now I have to ask a question. > > Seeing as Java is mutating like a heavily nuked protozoa, and these > books have dates of 1996-1997, are they really up to date anymore? They are up-to-date on JDK1.1, but not JDK1.2. However, they are still *great* books, and cover almost all of the 'basic' library. > If they describe things like an ancient event handling mechanism (that > deprecated for new software) its not going to be of extreme help. Nope, JDK1.1 is the new event model. > If it completely skips swing, well, that's not a minor omission > either. No Swing either, but there are *NO* good books on Swing, given that the final release was made about a month ago. > Can > someone who *has* these books give me some more reasons (that I can pass > along to the person writing the check) for why these aren't obsolete > (and if there's little chance to a new revision coming out 6 hours after > the purchase is made)? Because they are *THE* best reference for most of the core JDK stuff. Stuff like Swing and the Collections API are not covered, but you won't find any good books on either of these. > Thanks. Any rumors about new editions are welcome. I just looked on Amazon.com,and 'The Java Class Libraries: 1.2 Supplement' is supposed to be released any day now. I suspect with these 3 books (which would unfortunately be a hefty chunk of change) you'd have about everything you need. I can not think of *ANY* better Java reference book, and I've looked at dozens and dozens of them the last 3 years. > > Patrick Chan, Rosanna Lee, Doug Kramer > > > > The Java(tm) Class Libraries, Second Edition, Volume 1: > > java.io, java.lang, java.math, java.net, java.text, java.util Vol 1 > > > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201310023/o/qid=914418229/sr=2-1/002-9203115-8455054 > > > > ==================== > > Patrick Chan, Rosanna Lee > > The Java Class Libraries : Java.Applet, Java.Awt, Java.Beans (Vol 2) > > > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201310031/ref=sim_books/002-9203115-8455054 > > > > ==================== > > Patrick Chan, Rosanna Lee > > > > The Java Class Libraries : An Annotated Reference (Java Series) > > > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201634589/ref=sim_books/002-9203115-8455054 Don't bother with this one, as it is superceded by Vol1 and Vol2 above. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message