What Java: The Good Parts has to offer above just about any recent Java-oriented book I can think of is a historical perspective on why things are the way they are in the world of Java.

Can anyone recomend a book or two. My class starts Java Programming in the next semester and I'm loking to get a jump start on it. I've done some programming in Visual Basic and HTML but I haven't ...

The book Java Reflection in Action was published in 2004, but remains largely applicable eight years later. In this post, I review this book and cover its strengths and its weaknesses.