Foreword

Second Edition

The emergence of the Internet has led computing into a new era. It is no longer what your computer can do that matters. Instead, your computer can have access to the power of everything that is connected to the network: The Network is the Computer™. This network of services is the computing environment of the future.

The Java™ programming language brought reliable object-oriented programs to the net. Its simplicity continues to allow programmers to become fully fluent, and allows debugged Java programs to be written in about a quarter the time it takes to write programs in C++. We believe that use of the Java platform is the key to the emergence of a “best practices” discipline in software construction to give us the reliability ...

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