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—TechBookReport
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[note from marketing: so let me get this straight... we can get people to remember the most obscure technical facts, but we can’t get the media to remember the freakin’ name of the book???]
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—Paul Wren, Lunch with George (Java/C/C++ User Group)
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—Hampton Roads Oracle Users Group
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—Dr. Dan Russell, Director of User Sciences and Experience Research IBM Almaden Research Center (and teaches Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University)
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—Ken Arnold, former Senior Engineer at Sun Microsystems Co-author (with James Gosling, creator of Java), “The Java Programming Language”
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—Martin Turnley, Utah Java Users Group
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—Douglas Rowe, Columbia Java Users Group
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Java™ & XML
Java™ 2D Graphics
Java™ and SOAP
Java™ and XSLT
Java™ Cookbook
Java™ Cryptography
Java™ Data Objects
Java™ Database Best Practices
Java™ Distributed Computing
Java™ Enterprise Best Practices
Java™ Enterprise in a Nutshell
Java™ Examples in a Nutshell
Java™ Extreme Programming Cookbook
Java™ Foundation Classes in a Nutshell
Java™ I/O
Java™ in a Nutshell
Java™ Management Extensions
Java™ Message Service
Java™ Network Programming
Java™ NIO
Java™ Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition
Java™ Programming with Oracle JDBC
Java™ RMI
Java™ Security
Java Servlet™ Programming
Java™ Swing
Java™ Web Services
JavaServer Pages™
JDBC™ Pocket Reference
JXTA™ in a Nutshell
Learning Java™
Learning Wireless Java™
Mac OS X for Java™ Geeks
NetBeans™: The Definitive Guide
Programming Jakarta Struts
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