Title: Great coverage of JDK 1.3 client and server topics
Product review: I got this book after I read a positive review of it on Java Ranch and I wasn't disappointed. I was mostly interested in the chapters on i18n and XML, and those chapters alone would have made this book worth the money, but I found a lot more useful stuff that I didn't even expect to. I was already kind of familiar with threading having read some other materials on the topic but still found Brett's chapter to be clear and succinct. I like the fact that he minimizes the jargon and clearly explains terms that aren't necessarily obvious to someone like me at a beginner to intermediate level of expertise. I also like the fact that the code segments were short and only contained code relevant to the topic being discussed. The code examples in a lot of books are long and full of code that's not related to the topic, which makes it harder to understand.
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