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Inside Java
Audience: Beginner Rating: 3 Karanjit S. Siyan and James L. Weaver
New Riders, March 1997
ISBN 1-56205-664-6; 912 pages; $55.00 US
True to New Riders' reputation (in my book) of publishing books too fast (and including typos and errors), this was the first one I found that fully covered the 1.1 AWT event model and the new APIs in 1.1, such as Java Beans, Java Web Server, JDBC, RMI, Object Serialization, etc. However, I do not recommend this book if you don't have experience with Java 1.0.; instead I'd recommend a more complete book.

On topics like the AWT, this book tends to concentrate on the newer stuff and send you to Sun's Web pages for the existing information. This book also suffers from the syndrome of describing the AWT only in the context of applets (as opposed to applications too), but it isn't as bad as others in this respect. It also has an annoying habit of formatting lists of function prototypes to look like code, which can be misleading if you are not paying attention.

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