The book starts off with Java basics and class design. Instead of covering language basics, Spell discusses such topics as the runtime constant pool and garbage collection. Instead of covering ...

The book Java Reflection in Action was published ... important reflection APIs and focus on constructing instances of Java classes and introspecting method and field information.

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 ...