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Title: Disappointing; buy a different book
Review: A thick book that covers too many topics, from programming syntax to CORBA, JDBC, and servlets, all superficially, many poorly. The hard-to-understand explanations provide little insight into the topic areas covered.One has a sense that the author rushed to print just to be the first with a Java 2 title, by adding a few Java 2 items to a Java 1.1 text. Some chapters use Applets (Java 1.1), others Japplets (Java 2). Much of the Java 2 material is just filler--listings of the class definitions. Important Java 2 Swing concepts such as the various "panes" that are used to overlay graphics (content pane, glass pane, etc.) are not discussed nor does the book mention overriding the paintComponent() method for doing graphics.
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