Title: Broad but full of errors and annoying style
Review: The good part is that the book covers a broad range of Java-related stuff. However, the writing style is annoying at times, and is almost impossible to understand at some points. Worst of all though, are all the errors. The book can't have been proof-read, the samples contain errors (even on the CD) and have obviously not been tested. A typical example is the JDBC chapters, which explain the underlying mechanisms in detail, but every single example contains syntactical and other errors. When reading this book, I found myself getting so annoyed that my wife forced me to throw it out. There must be better books that cover the same topics. Please look for them.
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