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.

The book Java Reflection in Action was published in 2004, but remains largely applicable eight years later. ... (“Using the class loader”) provides nice coverage of Java class loaders.

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 ...