The Java Class Libraries

There is a reason this book is rated so highly. It is worth every penny you will spend on it. I would pay double the price, but don't tell the publisher. This is my favorite reference book, and my Java programming would not be as productive without this book. The book is huge, because it covers every class within the standard library (io, net, lang, etc.). As much as I appreciate the O'Reilly Nutshell book, this is far superior to that book. This has something Nutshell doesn't. Context. Not only does it have all the classes with all their methods, it puts each method in context. It shows you how they are used by providing relevant example code and descriptions. And the descriptions in the book are wonderful. You will look up a class and find a related class that will work better for your needs. I especially recommending getting this book for a team of developers. Leave the book in the room for office use. If you can so afford, get it for each developer. This is like the Post-it note. You would never live without it, even though you managed and may have even done well before it came along.

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.

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.

This book in an irreplaceable resource for anyone that uses Java. It won't tell you how to program, but it outlines all the basic java classes and the methods and attributes in those methods

This book proves day by day its value to me as a programmer. There are such a number of Java classes in 1.1 and this books explains them all in great detail. The examples are a fantastic help to find out what a calss is actually doing. Not only that these examples help understanding the Java classes, they are already solutions to common problems which can be modified to meet your own needs. From all the Java boods I bought this is the one which proved its value most.