Review of "Java Cookbook, 2nd"

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Book:		Java Cookbook
Subject:		Review of "Java Cookbook, 2nd"
Date:		2006-03-20 20:44:06
From:		Val

Rating: Ever gotten tired of wading through endless reference books or crawling the web seeking for small code snippets that solve common and ever-recurring problems? Don't look further, this book is for you. In this second and revamped version of the Java Cookbook, you will find tons of very valuable resources for your everyday programming tasks. The author, a long-time practitioner, adopts a "learn-by-example" approach by providing small code recipes which cover almost all APIs from the 1.4 version as well as some new killer features of Java 5. The number of subjects the author delves into is truly impressive. Apart from the traditional topics like effective string manipulation, threading, I18N and L10N, GUIs, RMI and networking, I/O and file system operations, and many more, the author also focuses on external devices and serial/parallel port programming, electronic mail, reflection and introspection, graphics and sound, pattern matching, generics, autoboxing, packaging and how to use Java with other languages. I really enjoyed reading this very helpful resource and I would definitely recommend it to Java programmers of any level in urgent need of some code ammo to put in their backpack. More reviews on Val's blog (http://radio.javaranch.com/val)