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Summary: This is an excellent book
Review: A book that is written for any serious java programmer. It introduces a lot of new features in the jdk 1.2
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Summary: book is plague with typos!
Review: Actually, I did not give a rating to the book. The book is plague with typos and errors, some of them required to rewrite a whole code example. I bought the second printing and was disappointed.My suggestion is to wait for later printings when all the errors have been fixed.
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Summary: discuss deeply the I/O classes...
Review: discuss from all the sides, all what someone needs to write codes handling various multilingual Character sets. With this good style written book, I could finally understand the differences between the I/O classes, and how to use them. For its price, I really recommand it.
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Summary: Excellent choice.......
Review: First of all, this is not a reference, it explains the organization behind the I/O Library. If you are looking for a reference book to locate answers in under a minute this ISN'T the book for you, instead get 'Java in a Nutshell'. Second of all, this book helps you to learn the I/O classes by constructing a program that you modify throughout the book. If that will annoy you, don't get this book. Overall, I think this is a great book! It was well worth the investment. I had previously encountered I/O documentation in more broadly scoped Java books such as, Beginning Java, in other words not much detail. This book, however, blew me away with its detail, but it is presented in a very down to earth manner. In other words, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand what's going on. This book will take you from the top of the I/O class hierarchy and move you down into the specialized sub-classes. All the while explaining to you what each of the classes does and like I said before, a lot of supporting details. Best of all, this book helps you understand I/O by showing you how Sun logically organized the I/O Library. By the time you've finished the book it's much easier to understand how all of the classes come together to offer powerful I/O support. Before I read this book when I looked at the inheritance tree for the I/O Library my reponse was like "you've got to be kidding me! I'll never be able to get all of this down!". But after finishing this book I am in no way intimidated or confused by the I/O classes. Good luck!
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Summary: Excellent choice.......
Review: First of all, this is not a reference, it explains the organization behind the I/O Library. If you are looking for a reference book to locate answers in under a minute this ISN'T the book for you, instead get 'Java in a Nutshell'. Second of all, this book helps you to learn the I/O classes by constructing a program that you modify throughout the book. If that will annoy you, don't get this book. Overall, I think this is a great book! It was well worth the investment. I had previously encountered I/O documentation in more broadly scoped Java books such as, Beginning Java, in other words not much detail. This book, however, blew me away with its detail, but it is presented in a very down to earth manner. In other words, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand what's going on. This book will take you from the top of the I/O class hierarchy and move you down into the specialized sub-classes. All the while explaining to you what each of the classes does and like I said before, a lot of supporting details. Best of all, this book helps you understand I/O by showing you how Sun logically organized the I/O Library. By the time you've finished the book it's much easier to understand how all of the classes come together to offer powerful I/O support. Before I read this book when I looked at the inheritance tree for the I/O Library my reponse was like "you've got to be kidding me! I'll never be able to get all of this down!". But after finishing this book I am in no way intimidated or confused by the I/O classes. Good luck!
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Summary: Very readable and very complete
Review: For anyone who knows Java's core language and wants to know more about the many ways to perform I/O in Java, then look no further. This is the best book available on the subject hands-down. It covers all aspects of I/O, including encryption, zipping, and networking as well as big discussions on the basics such as console and file I/O. This book is very readable as well in that the author saves the book from being as boring as a book covering I/O can be. All in all, it's worth every penny.
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Summary: An excellent discussion of a commonly misunderstood subject
Review: For many programmers who started off using the command line as their primary I/O source, the Java system is a bit unusual. The simple, straightforward style of C is completely different than the various classes in Java. After reading through this book and delving into a few examples, Java's I/O classes became much clearer. The class structure makes a lot of sense, separating formatting from actual reading and writing, and allows for a great deal of flexibility. Although the author maligns the old command line style, much of the java.io package is based on streams and pipes from the Unix paradigm. This somewhat flippant disregard for the command line is my only major beef with the book. Otherwise, I found it to be very readable and handled all of the topics well.
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Summary: Another feather in O'Reilly's cap - a 'must have' book
Review: Frankly, EVERY Java program deals with I/O in some form or another. Yet no topic could have been ignored, or trivialised in so many books. Finally, here is a good book that is concise, to the point and yet very lucid. Whether you are a Java novice or a guru, this is a 'must have' book on your shelf.
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Summary: Gentle, but, Comprehensive
Review: Gentle, Clear Explanations, Easy to Follow. Covers Internationalization and Unicode. Basic Network Porgramming and Cryptography. Serialization.
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Summary: Excellent for the beginner to intermediate programmer
Review: Great tutorial-like introduction to the Java I/O classes. Not a reference but very useful. A must buy if you want to boost your coding productivity. Plus it has the only discussion of Java-based serial and parallel port I/O that I've seen. One or two small rough spots but well worth the $'s.
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