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Java Precisely - concise Java quick reference

Java Precisely

Java Precisely, Second Edition, describes Java 5.0, including generics, reflection, annotations, enum types, autoboxing and so on. The book has 142 pages, a comprehensive index and 165 examples.

It is a quick reference for the reader who has learnt (or is learning) Java from a standard textbook, and who wants to know the language in more detail.

Here's a bonus note with Java performance tips (updated April 2005).

The new second edition (2005)

Java Precisely, Second Edition, describes Java 5.0 and has 142 pages, a comprehensive index and 165 examples.

Bibliographic data

P. Sestoft, Java Precisely, Second Edition, The MIT Press August 2005. ISBN 0-262-69325-9. List price: US $18.95.

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Example programs from the second edition

The first edition (2002)

The first edition gives a concise description of the Java programming language (Java 2 JDK 1.3 and 1.4) in 107 pages plus a comprehensive index. It includes 114 examples; see below. P. Sestoft, Java Precisely, The MIT Press June 2002. ISBN 0-262-69276-7. List price: US $16.95.
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Some reviews of the first edition

Rational Reader Book Review, June 2003 in HTML and PDF.
The Computer Bulletin, May 2003 (British Computer Society). Book of the month!
Online Computing Reviews, March 2003.

Example programs from the first edition

As a jar file (181 KB)
As a zip file (185 KB)
As a gzipped tar file (80 KB)

Disclaimer Java Precisely and its example programs come with no warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. In no event shall I or the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University or the IT University of Copenhagen or The MIT Press be liable for any damage resulting from its use.

The zero'th edition: old online version (2000)

The old online version (September 2000) has no material on the collection classes, on input and output, the assert statement, and a number of other things. Also, the index and the layout are better in the printed version.

Old version, browsable with hyperlinks: PDF (410 KB)
The hyperlinks are colored, so this prints poorly on a black-and-white device.
Old version, printable A5 booklet (two pages to one): PDF (249 KB) and Postscript (416 KB).
Print on a duplex printer, then fold down the middle of the sheet, and you have a booklet. You must use a duplex printer.
Old version, printable A5 format (two pages to one): PDF (246 KB) and Postscript (411 KB).
Old version, printable A4 format: PDF (245 KB) and Postscript (386 KB).
Print on a duplex printer!
Old version example programs as a jar file (88 KB) or as a zip file (83 KB) or as a gzipped tar file (31 KB).

License Any individual or institution has the right to download, print and reproduce the September 2000 online version of Java Precisely, but not to modify or sell it -- except that copies may be sold to students at the cost of reproduction.

Any individual or institution may make electronic copies of the September 2000 online version of Java Precisely available locally (within an organization), but not publicly, e.g. on the Internet.

Thanks

Thanks to Rasmus Lund, Niels Hallenberg, Hans Henrik Løvengreen, Christian Gram, Jan Clausen, Anders Peter Ravn, Bruce Conrad, Brendan Humphreys, Hans Rischel and Ken Friis Larsen for their useful comments, suggestions, and corrections. Special thanks to Rasmus Lund for letting me adapt his collections diagram for this book. Warm thanks to the editors Bob Prior and Deborah Cantor-Adams, and the very careful copy editor, at The MIT Press.

Java Precisely was written using the following software: Linux, GNU Emacs, LaTeX 2e, xfig, xdvi, dvips, psselect, psnup, ps2pdf, Ghostview, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Netscape Navigator, CVS, GNU make, GNU tar, sed, zip, Moscow ML, IBM's Jikes, IBM's JIT JVM for Linux, and Sun Microsystems' javac and jar.

Peter Sestoft (sestoft@dina.kvl.dk) 2005-07-19