“I sure wish I had this book ten years ago. Some might think that I don’t need any Java books, but I need this one.” | ||
| --James Gosling, fellow and vice president, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and inventor of the Java programming language | ||
“An excellent book, crammed with good advice on using the Java programming language and object-oriented programming in general.” | ||
| --Gilad Bracha, distinguished engineer, Cadence Design Systems, and coauthor of The Java™ Language Specification, Third Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2005) | ||
“10/10—anyone aspiring to write good Java code that others will appreciate reading and maintaining should be required to own a copy of this book. This is one of those rare books where the information won’t become obsolete with subsequent releases of the JDK library.” | ||
| --Peter Tran, bartender, JavaRanch.com | ||
“The best Java book yet written.... Really great; very readable and eminently useful. I can’t say enough good things about this book. At JavaOne 2001, James Gosling said, ‘Go buy this book!’ I’m glad I did, and I couldn’t agree more.” | ||
| --Keith Edwards, senior member of research staff, Computer Science Lab at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and author of Core JINI (Prentice Hall, 2000) | ||
“This is a truly excellent book done by the guy who designed several of the better recent Java platform APIs (including the Collections API).” | ||
| --James Clark, technical lead of the XML Working Group during the creation of the XML 1.0 Recommendation; editor of the XPath and XSLT Recommendations | ||
“Great content. Analogous to Scott Meyers’s classic Effective C++. If you know the basics of Java, this has to be your next book.” | ||
| --Gary K. Evans, OO mentor and consultant, Evanetics, Inc. | ||
“In my estimation, no more than one good programming book appears per year (and there are certainly many years that saw none): Knuth’s trilogy, the K&R White Book, Kernighan and Plauger’s Software Tools... Bloch’s book fits in well with this august company. Get it.” | ||
| --Andrew Binstock, Software Development Times, August 15, 2001 | ||
“This is a superb book. It clearly covers many of the language/platform subtleties and trickery you need to learn to become a real Java master.” | ||
| --Victor Wiewiorowski, vice president development and code quality manager, ValueCommerce Co., Tokyo, Japan | ||
“I like books that under-promise in their titles and over-deliver in their contents. This book has 57 items of programming advice that are well chosen. Each item reveals a clear, deep grasp of the language. Each one illustrates in simple, practical terms the limits of programming on intuition alone, or taking the most direct path to a solution without fully understanding what the language offers.” | ||
| --Michael Ernest, Inkling Research, Inc. | ||
“Every bit of this book is essential for Java designers. Reading this book before you start delivering products can easily repay its cost thousands of times.” | ||
| --Richard Mateosian, IEEE micro, July/August 2002 (vol. 22, no. 4) | ||
“Great how-to resource for the experienced developer.” | ||
| --John Zukowski, author of numerous Java books | ||
“I picked this book up two weeks ago and can safely say I learned more about the Java language in three days of reading than I did in three months of study! An excellent book and a welcome addition to my Java library.” | ||
| --Jane Griscti, I/T advisory specialist | ||