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Title: Hardcore Java by Robert Simmons ISBN: 0-596-00568-7 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.81 (16 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Boring Java for children
Comment: This book is not for intermediate to advanced Java programmers. It is for novices to intermediate programmers. The first "hardcore" thing the author declares is:
public static void someMethod(Vector source) {
Vector target = source;
target.add("Swing");
}
He states that someone could think that source vector is being copied to the target vector, so that the source vector is not being modified. If you thought about this method as something more or less challenging, so by this book.
All the chapter about the final keyword is just very, very boring. "Use final to avoid typos!" Ok. Thanks a lot!
Every developer, like every reader, is different, so maybe you will like this book. The author has a cool writing sytle and he really thinks he is a Java Guru. I am not saying that he is not. He probably is an awesome Java professional. But in my opinion, using the keyword final to avoid typos is not an indication of a hardcore developer.
Maybe the chapters about Reflection, Proxies and References have something really interesting and advanced, but I hate to skip pages in a book.
The first 4 chapters could be easily summarized in 4 paragraphs. There is nothing challenging or advanced there.
Favor interfaces over implementations. Never use HashMap mymap = new HashMap(). Instead use Map mymap = new HashMap().
If you don't know why the above is a good practice, so by this book. Otherwise read something more challenging like Game Developing in Java and learn how to build a scalable game server framework with Java NIO. (read my comments about this book)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good explanations of proxies and References
Comment: The author is certainly spot on about saying his book is not for Java beginners. What Simmons tries is to take you beyond the scope of most Java books, that first have to teach syntax. He assumes you are quite comfortable with Java. But he discusses topics that may give you a deeper understanding.
He starts off simply enough, by emphasising that you should use "final" where ever it is made possible by the logic behind your code. The idea is to push a bug that might violate the logic into being found at compile time rather than at run time.
Amongst later topics is proxies. You might be familiar with these, in CORBA, EJB and RMI. But of all the Java texts I have read, Simmons has the clearest, most lucid explanation of proxies. A simple description that cuts through the necessarily detailed clutter often used elsewhere. There are chapters of other books, and indeed entire books, on each of CORBA, EJB and RMI. But in the involved explanations of each, though the term proxy may be used, there is often lacking a simple unifying description, encompassing all three.
Simmons also has a chapter on References, which are often neglected. This may be the hardest chapter to understand. But potentially the most useful, in minimising your memory footprint.
Rating: 3
Summary: Nice intro to slightly advanced Java...
Comment: The title "Hardcore Java" is definitely overkill. A better one may be "Stuff a new Java developer might not know yet".
This book is full is little nuggets of "oh, good idea" and "oh, I never knew that". But don't expect to be a guru after reading it by any means. Lean towards 'Effective Java Programming Language Guide' for a thorough, advanced discussion of the Java language.
For it's price, it's not bad, it seems relatively cheap compared to many books on the subject. It's easily a weekend read as well.
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