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Title: Not worth the money
Review: This book has about the best table of contents that I have seen. A quick glance indicates that this book covers just about every topic needed to write "industrial strength" Java application. Unfortunately, the content does not back it up.The AWT chapters (AWT Basics and Advanced AWT) both deal with basic AWT topics. The cover page claims that the book covers Java 1.1, but the examples here all use the 1.0 event model. The chapters "Interfacing C/C++ and Java" and "JDBC" contain very little content (but the LARGE fonts used help them to stretch for many pages).In general, the book tries to cover too much. Each of these chapters could (and usually do) take an entire book to cover. That would be okay if this book provided a solid introduction to each topic, but in most places it fails to do even that.
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