Masood Mortazavi's Blog: April 2006 Archive

The MIT Press has been known for its few but no nonsense programming languages books, like the ones on LISP and Scheme or Robin Milner's The Definition of ML.

Peter Sestoft's Java Precisely: Second Edition continues the same tradition. It also echoes the style of books such as Jeffrey Ullman's Elements of ML Programming.

What makes Java Precisely valuable is not only its rigor and density but also the presentation style where textual explanation on the left has been complemented with code on the right no matter where you open the book.

This simple design allows readers to go at their own pace and review the code and explanation in tandom.

The sections on "Java 5.0," (now also available in "Release 4" for Mac OS X), cover much of the new features added to the Java language, including enum types, generic types and methods, generic collections and maps, including the enhanced "for" statement, StringBuilder class and metadata annotations.

Random readings throught the book would probably work very well for the advanced programmer who has a good deal of Java experience.

More on Java DB

Posted by mortazavi on April 12, 2006 at 10:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Java DB is Sun's distribution of Apache / Derby technology. You can find more about Java DB here.

Currently, a global Sun engineering team of database experts is actively participating in the Derby community and working to incorporate other useful features in Derby: SUR and JDBC 4. Sun also makes nightly test results and builds of Derby available to the Derby community. We have also put in place a rather extensive test infrastructure which includes long-running and robustness tests. So, you can expect continuing contributions from Sun in these areas. You can always turn to the Apache / Derby website to learn more about current activities, and if you're a database expert, consider making your own contributions.

In the meantime, if you're a database user, you'll be rewarded by taking a look at the small and mighty Java DB!

If you're curious about how to use it see John O'Conner's article at Sun Developer Network.

Check out the Aquarium for more useful links on Java DB.

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