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Title: So-so online reference
Review: It is a CD-ROM with an associated user's book that has a bare minimum of information.The CD-ROM is searchable and in HTML. It covers all the packages and classes of Java 2. It's style is very similiar to Java in a Nutshell. The search works by allowing you to type in the name of any class, method, or field. The CD-ROM will take you directly to the page covering that topic or give you a list of topics if there is more than one.This CD-ROM's major competitor is the Java Almanac. I prefer the almanac because it is paper.The CD-ROM has a nice browsing system, but given the fact that it does not have class/method descriptions, I think I will typically use the free HTML help that comes with JDK over this CD-ROM. The only time I envision using this CD-ROM is when I am working with a non-core API.
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