The book Java Reflection in Action was published in 2004, but remains largely applicable eight years later. In this post, I review this book and cover its strengths and its weaknesses. In general, age ...

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"Java by Comparison; Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples" is an excellent book. To describe it in one sentence: it teaches you how to write better and clearer Java code. Who is this book for? I ...

I have a friend who was a Java programmer about 5 years back. He has programmed in a few languages (C, C++, VB, java), so he is comfortable with code. For the last 5 years, he has been supporting a ...

About six years ago, I had to learn Java for work, and did so using Deitel & Deitel's "Java How To Program" book. The book felt extremely well written, with a very nicely structured progression and ...

This book shows how to understand what application you want to write, what strategies are likely to get you there, and then how to measure your level of success. This book offers practical, concrete ...

I recently posted an early preview of my thoughts on David R. Heffelfinger‘s book Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7. In this post, I provide a more detailed review of this book. In this section of ...

Creating the architecture for a Java enterprise application has many facets. This book offers valuable advice for designing your next application. J2EE, the Java Enterprise specification is made up of ...

Want to build cloud-native Java apps in Java versus Go and Rust? This step-by-step tutorial shows how to create native ...