Mastering Java 2, J2SE 1.4

I'm an E-Commerce Developer (using Embed Perl, Perl5, TCL, ADP, OpenACS) for more than 7 years, and I just had the time to migrate to Java just this year. I know learning a new language needs some technical experience, otherwise your time table would have some complexity especially if you're on a fast environment. Getting this book would give you a good head start on Java (if you're serious migrating on this system). There's... Read Full Review

I came to Java with some previous limited programming experience, most of which I forgot years ago. You can actually learn everything about Java using available online resources ( Sun's tutorials, mailing list archives, etc ) but I constantly finding myself going to this book when I need to more than the API tells me. Its probably not the best book for someone who's just starting programming. For the complete beginner I'd... Read Full Review

I have read "Thinking in Java..." by Bruce Eckel and some other Java books and I have found that this book, "Mastering Java 2 J2SE 1.4", covers same material in a different way, with lot of diagrams and pictures, wich has helped me to read it with joy. There are some mistakesin source code, wich I have found on accompanied CD, but I have found easy to rectify it.I would recommend this book to anybody who already knows some... Read Full Review