Java Garage (Garage Series)

Enter your Java Garage

Where you do your work, not somebody else’s

Where you get away, experiment, tinker

Where work is about passion, not rules

Serendipity, not linearity

Inspiration, not same-old, same-old

Where discoveries are made

Where what you learn matters

Where you achieve greatness, not just competence

Your mentor, teacher, sherpa: Eben Hewitt

Java guru, architect, Sun-certified up the wazoo

Able to leap tall object models in a single bound and teach you how to do it, with classes and inheritance interfaces and type conversions event handling and exceptions file I/O and multithreading inner classes, Swing, JARs, and the whole bloomin’ Java 2 Standard Edition Platform 1.5

Browse it, take it home,

Enter the Garage

Come out, a master

Enter your Java Garage... where you do your work, not somebody else’s... where you experiment and tinker... where work is about passion, serendipity, inspiration... where you achieve greatness with Java, not just competence. Your mentor, teacher, sherpa: Eben Hewitt, Java architect, able to leap tall object models in a single bound, and teach you how to do it, too. What you’ll learn: only the best ways to get it done with J2SE 1.5 classes, inheritance, interfaces, type conversions, event handling, exceptions, file I/O, multithreading, inner classes, Swing, JARs, everything that matters. Think ’zine. Think blog. But, please, do not think of any other Java book you have ever seen.