Java 1.5 Tiger by Brett McLaughlin, David Flanagan, 0596007388, Lowest Book Price Finder

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Best book to get to know the new features of Java5

If you are looking to get to know the new features of Java 5, and like most of us are short of time, trust me, this is the book for you. Concise, clear and precise; very helpful in understanding the basics of generics, autoboxing, varargs and all the tonnes of new features that the Java 5 has introduced.

Highly recommended!

Well-focused, chatty style, not a 'developers notebook'

Not at all a notebook; I was expecting concise outlines of the new features, some appropriate examples and some hints and tips and gotchas and workarounds, as you would expect in a developers notebook.

Instead this is more a "Chatty Introduction to 1.5 for 1.4 users". Everything is "one of the coolest features" and examples "will look wierd to you but don't worry, it's cool". I found these unnecessary asides distracting and annoying, but it's better than the overblown technicalise used in many books. There is no doubt that reading it was easy - it took me a few hours to go through the whole thing and still get a grasp on the new features.

Not suitable as a reference book (which my 'developers notebook' is!) but a well presented introduction.

Precious, agile and concise notebook

This is the first book of the "O'Reilly Developer's Notebook" I read, and I must confess that I feel very confortable with this new concise and straight-to-the-point format. The book (170 pages length), written by the java best seller author Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan, can be read in a weekend and has the great merit of being able to illustrate you all the new features introduced by Sun with JDK 1.5.
Some parts are really only introductions, because they try to cover huge subjects, like generics or the new java.util.concurrent package, but there are really a lot of informations, details and code snippets in this little book.
I particularly appreciated the fact that the author shows both pros and cons of new features, highlighting both what is good and what is odd or questionable in the new release of Java.
I think it is a good buy, especially for professionals who don't have the time to read thousands of pages but want to learn quickly what's new in Java 5.

Great for getting to grips with the new features fast

I have found this latest addition to the 'Developer's Notebook' series to give me exactly what I'm looking for in terms of a very fast introduction to the new and important features of the upcoming Java release.

In the past I've been bogged down with the all encompassing tombs that cover every feature of the language as it's been updated. Not to knock those books too hard, they have their place and I'd not be without them, but with the advent of the Developer's Notebook series experienced developers can get the types of information, to hand immediately, that we have been crying out for and this one on the new features of Java 1.5 Tiger is no exception.

I'd recommend this book to any developer who has been using Java for a while and is looking forward to harnessing the new features of the language as quickly as possible.

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