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Review title: Indispensible reference guide to java class libraries
Product review: The java class libraries, 2nd edition, volume 1, and the supplement have provided me with almost everything I needed to construct an elaborate java software system.I agree with the several other reviewers that these two volumes, though bulky, are virtually essential to any major java project.My only criticisms are: (1) there's no review of the template mechanism that fixes types to various container classes -- I had to turn to the (poor) online documentation to figure out how that works, and (2) no overview of the language. You need to turn to one or another tutorial textbooks for that. Or the Java Developer's Reference, from Sams, published in 1996, no longer in print, which I found invaluable for its discussions of the more esoteric features of java.
