文档介绍：Praise for the First Edition
“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 program-
ming 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 e obsolete with
subsequent releases of the JDK library.”
—Peter Tran, bartender,
“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 mendation;
editor of the XPath and XSLT mendations
“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, ics, Inc.
“Josh Bloch gives great insight into best practices that really can only be discov-
ered after years of study and experience.”
—Mark Mascolino, software engineer
“This is a superb book. It clearly covers many of the language/platform subtleties
and tricker