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.

Introductory Java books are a rather popular bunch. If you’re interested in Java programming, you have to start somewhere. Most people pick up at least one book to get them started.

This edition covers Java 8 for the experienced Java Developer, but it is also designed as a learning path for new developers. The 5th edition of this book covered Java 5, so it was due for an update.

Java Performance, by Charlie Hunt and Binu John, provides performance tuning advice for both Java SE and EE applications. InfoQ reviews the book, and talks to the authors about their approach.

He knows how to use the if-else clause, for loop, while loop etc. What he needs is a book aimed at intermediate programmers which catches him up with all the advances from say, Java 5 till Java 7.

Java Testing and Design: From Unit Testing to Automated Web Tests teaches you a fast and efficient method to build production-worthy, scalable, and well performing Web-enabled applications. The ...

J2EE, the Java Enterprise specification is made up of many APIs, from the datastore level to Web servers and Web services. There are many books explaining each API, but very few books try to teach ...

Too bad the Java Programming Black Book is outdated.<BR><BR>I don't know of good reference written recently - most are JDK 1.2 era at best.<BR><BR>Sun's Javadocs are usually quite good - I have ...