Re: java

From:

John Ersatznom <j.ersatz@nowhere.invalid>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:19:16 -0500

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ck wrote:

Chris Uppal wrote:

John Ersatznom wrote:

Guess how many Java books I have (E or otherwise): Zero.

I think that you would find value in either or both of the JLS or the JVM
spec -- both of which e-books are freely downloadable from Sun's website
somewhere.

Of course. No body spoke of these bibles before.

Oh, come on, *Sun's own downloadable documentation* doesn't count.
Doorstops with a big JAVA in a saturated primary color sitting on
bookstore shelves, and "ebooks" that cost twice as much and are full of
evil DRM, on the other hand ...

Mind you, we ARE entering a new era, in which the Almighty Thud* has
taken on a whole new meaning -- it's the sound you hear three hours
after clicking "Download SDK API documentation" links for large Java
class libraries, esp. the core JDK ones themselves. :) (It's also the
sound you hear a little later, seeing the Disk Full error with the
progress bar at 90%, when you bang your head repeatedly against the case
containing the 250GB Maxtor drive you just clogged with it all.)

* http://martinfowler.com/distributedComputing/thud.html