Java Generics and Collections by Maurice Naftalin

Java Generics and Collections by Maurice Naftalin

This comprehensive guide shows you how to master the most important changes to Java since it was first released. Generics and the greatly expanded collection libraries have tremendously increased the power of Java 5 and Java 6. But they have also confused many developers who haven't known how to take advantage of these new features. "Java Generics and Collections" covers everything from the most basic uses of generics to the strangest corner cases. It teaches you everything you need to know about the collections libraries, so you'll always know which collection is appropriate for any given task, and how to use it. Topics covered include: Fundamentals of generics: type parameters and generic methods; Other new features: boxing and unboxing, foreach loops, varargs; Subtyping and wildcards; Evolution not revolution: generic libraries with legacy clients and generic clients with legacy libraries; Generics and reflection; Design patterns for generics; Sets, Queues, Lists, Maps, and their implementations; Concurrent programming and thread safety with collections; ane Performance implications of different collections. Generics and the new collection libraries they inspired take Java to a new level. If you want to take your software development practice to a new level, this book is essential reading.

"This is a very good book on two fairly focused topics - generics and collectionsIf you plan to make best use of either or both, buy a copy." - Ian Elliot, VSJ, April 2007

Maurice Naftalin is Director of Software Development at Morningside Light Ltd., a software consultancy in the United Kingdom. Maurice consults mainly in object-oriented technologies and teaches Java classes part-time at Learning Tree. He has three decades' experience as a programmer, team leader, and commercial trainer. Philip Wadler is a professor of theoretical computer science at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where his research focuses on functional and logic programming. He co-authored the Generic Java standard that became the basis for generics in Sun's Java 5.0 and also contributed to the XQuery language standard base. Professor Wadler received his Ph.D., in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University and co-wrote "Introduction to Functional Programming" (Prentice-Hall).

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ISBN 13	9780596527754
ISBN 10	0596527756
Title	Java Generics and Collections
Author	Maurice Naftalin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	O'Reilly Media
Year published	2006-11-21
Number of pages	294
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