Effective Java

Praise for the First Edition
“I sure wish I had this book ten years ago. Some might think that I don’t need
any Java books, but I need this one.”
—James Gosling, fellow and vice president, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and
inventor of the Java programming language
“An excellent book, crammed with good advice on using the Java programming language and object-oriented programming in general.”—Gilad Bracha, distinguished engineer, Cadence Design Systems,
and coauthor of The Java™ Language Specification,
Third Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2005)
“10/10—anyone aspiring to write good Java code that others will appreciate
reading and maintaining should be required to own a copy of this book. This
is one of those rare books where the information won’t become obsolete with
subsequent releases ofthe JDK library.”
—Peter Tran, bartender, JavaRanch.com
“The best Java book yet written.... Really great; very readable and eminently
useful. I can’t say enough good things about this book. At JavaOne 2001,
James Gosling said, ‘Go buy this book!’ I’m glad I did, and I couldn’t agree
more.”
—Keith Edwards, senior member of research staff,
Computer Science Lab at the Palo Alto Research Center(PARC),
and author of Core JINI (Prentice Hall, 2000)
“This is a truly excellent book done by the guy who designed several of the
better recent Java platform APIs (including the Collections API).”
—James Clark, technical lead of the XML Working Group
during the creation of the XML 1.0 Recommendation;
editor of the XPath and XSLT Recommendations

“Great content. Analogous to ScottMeyers’s classic Effective C++. If you know
the basics of Java, this has to be your next book.”
—Gary K. Evans, OO mentor and consultant, Evanetics, Inc.
“Josh Bloch gives great insight into best practices that really can only be discovered after years of study and experience.”
—Mark Mascolino, software engineer
“This is a superb book. It clearly covers many of the language/platform subtleties
andtrickery you need to learn to become a real Java master.”
—Victor Wiewiorowski, vice president development and code quality manager,
ValueCommerce Co., Tokyo, Japan
“I like books that under-promise in their titles and over-deliver in their contents.
This book has 57 items of programming advice that are well chosen. Each item
reveals a clear, deep grasp of the language. Each one illustrates insimple, practical
terms the limits of programming on intuition alone, or taking the most direct path
to a solution without fully understanding what the language offers.”
—Michael Ernest, Inkling Research, Inc.
“I don’t find many programming books that make me want to read every page—
this is one of them.”
—Matt Tucker, chief technical officer, Jive Software
“Great how-to resource for theexperienced developer.”
—John Zukowski, author of numerous Java books
“I picked this book up two weeks ago and can safely say I learned more about the
Java language in three days of reading than I did in three months of study! An
excellent book and a welcome addition to my Java library.”
—Jane Griscti, I/T advisory specialist

Effective Java™
Second Edition

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