Core Java: Advanced Features (Core Series) 9th Edition

The review is for the Kindle edition of the book. The material overall is great but editing for the Kindle is bad. For some reason all asterisks are missing from all monospace code samples (block comments turn to just slashes, pointers to whatever that is that is not a pointer, etc.), which may be OK for Java code but make the final chapter about the JNI quite confusing. There's a way to open samples as images, but they often don't span pages nicely. Also, the e-book was edited "for bigger screens", which is another way of saying that it is borderline possible to read it on e-book reader Kindles.

This is a great book. The coverage has everything that I need, the explanations are clear and concise, and the examples really drive home the ideas. I have learned a lot from this book, but noticed that I am missing exactly 50 pages of the book. I have all of Chapter 11, but Chapter 12 starts at section 12.10. Is it like this for anyone else?

If you code in Java, you have to have this book. My only complaint is that I wrote copious notes and applied miles of yellow highlighting to its predecessor, so I had to sit down for a couple of hours and transcribe them all into the new edition (except where--thank goodness--my notes addressed themselves to workarounds no longer required in SE7).If you write Java programs and you don't have this book, get it.

I have been using the Core Java series (Volumes 1 & 2) as far back as the late 1990's when studying Java in community college. They are by far the best, thorough, concise and well written books on Java I've read. I recently purchased the ninth edition of these books in order to stay current on the latest features of Java. I highly recommend them!

The book description lists Web Services as part of the content. It does this at the same level as the chapters, yet there is no chapter on Web Services. There is one page in the 1152 pages that mentions web services, and then it only says that the book will not discuss them (instead it will talk about RMI). This is false advertising! I chose this book over other comprehensive Java books because I also wanted to know more about web services.However, the rest of the book is very in depth and well organized so it still gets a couple stars since it satisfied a comprehensive overview.

This book is adequate but not much more. It tries to cover a lot of territory, which it succeeds in doing. However, each topic I was interested in was not covered in any level of depth to be of much use to me. I don't use it often as a reference book because it doesn't go into enough detail.

The two volume book provide enough depth for beginner to start with & also leave room for reader themselves to explore in Internet to get further, like how to access c++ library done by others.I think it would be better if the book covers more on RMI, SECURITY, NATIVE CODE, NIO, crypto, & etc rather than swing

This is one of the best Java reference/learning books I have found to date. It is easy to read and understand and paired with volume 1 is a relatively complete core java reference for any developer.I highly recommended this book if you are just starting out or looking for a good java language reference.

Al igual que el volumen 1, este volumen 2 es muy claro y conciso en enseñarnos como utilizar toda la potencia que encierra Java, haciendo especial hincapié en las novedades de las últimas ediciones (5, 6 y 7) y en señalar las diferencias para aquellos programadores provenientes de C++.Dudé mucho al comprarlos porque son 2000 páginas y hay otros libros que cuentan lo mismo en menos de 800. Pero ahora sé que es imposible que cuenten lo mismo ya que Cay Horstmann va al punto de lo que quiere contar, así que tengo por seguro que los otros deben omitir muchas cosas que no consideran relevantes, pero al menos ahora manejo sin dificultad las clases anónimas, las clases internas, no tengo dudas entre cuando usa un interfaz o una clase abstracta, por poner un ejemplo de cosas que veo a compañeros de profesión no entender correctamente.Ya formarán parte de mi biblioteca personal para mi futura referencia, porque esa es otra, se pueden leer en orden todos los capítulos o dejar algunos para más tarde y volver sobre ellos cuando los necesites.Estoy tan contento con este autor que seguramente me compre algunos libros más suyos, y ya tengo echado el ojo a uno de Scala.

Excellent book for anyone serious about learning Java. This is one of the must-haves for Java enthusiasts

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I am big fan of java and I have a lot of books on java but this is the best one . Best for java collections , inner classes and much more