The 5th edition of the increasingly inacurately named* book Java in a Nutshell is out!
My copies arrived yesterday. Amazon is not yet showing same-day shipping, but I'm sure their copies are almost there, and should be ready to ship very soon.
This edition of the book covers Java 5.0 and weighs in at 1200 pages. The major new language features (generics, enums, annotations) are covered in a new chapter of their own. Less major new features (for/in loop, autoboxing, varargs, static imports, covariant returns) are discussed in chapter 2. I'm partiicularly pleased with Chapter 5, which is 95 dense pages of examples that demonstrate how to use the most important classes and packages of the J2SE platform. The API quickref has of course been updated to reflect the new syntax of generics, annotations and enumerated types.
See the amazon box to the left if you want to buy this book!
*With apologies to the late Douglas Adams
@__DavidFlanagan
Hi there,
Congrats! it's been added to my wish list. How's your tiger notebook working ?
Actually this comment is related to Mustang blog. Which JSR corresponds to " Enterprise Desktop" ?
Also, your jude link gives a 404.
BR,
~A
Thank you, Anjan.
The "Tiger Developer's Notebook" is really Brett McLaughlin's book, on which I served as a consultant, so I haven't been following how it is doing.
I do not know what Sun means when they make "Enterprise Desktop" one of their themes for Mustang. They are not referring to a specific JSR, but to an overall goal of the release. But I still don't know what it means.
Thanks for pointing out the broken link. I'd been messing with my blog templates. Fixed now.
David Flanagan
Hi,
Where is the TOC, please? How shall we but it without knowing what it includes?
--- Ersin
David,
I find your Nutshell books truely useful, and own multiple editions: But isnt it time you published them in a diff form (either electronically or diff pages). I am getting a little tired of paying for multiple editions of the same material, when all i want are the diffs. Something like just hand me the new chapters. Dont bother with the reference pages, as i can get those from Javadocs.
cheers,
Ersin,
Usually the O'Reilly website has the TOC. It isn't there yet for the 5th edition, though.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javanut5
The TOC for the 4th edition is available from
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javanut4/toc.html
But that doesn't help you very much.
Jwahar,
I wanted to do this edition of the book without the quickref section. O'Reilly wouldn't let me.
Selling just the updated chapters is hard to do. O'Reilly tried something like this long ago with their X books. The first book I wrote for them was "Programmers Supplement for Release 5 of the X Window System". I think the books have too short a lifespan and it just doesn't pay for publishers to do it that way.