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Java Developer's Reference
Mike Cohn, et al.
Sams.net Publishing, October 1996
ISBN 1-57521-129-7; 1258 pages; $59.99 US
This book is for serious Java programmers. It's one of the two best Java reference books; the Java Class Libraries: An Annotated Reference is the other. It's hardback in three parts: 1. Java Development System; 2. Using Java Packages; and 3. Package, Class and Interface Reference. It has a good MVC/Observer/Observable GUI discussion. That did it. I bought it.

It covers the Java language and tools as well as APIs, but the API reference is not as detailed as in Java Class Libraries: An Annotated Reference. It also has the best description of the Java security model, and javadoc html formatting that I've found. However, its description of setting up javadoc is not as good. It has a pretty good section on using Java native methods. And it's the best reference our local debugger experts have found for the sun.tools.debug debugger APIs.

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