About this Book
Welcome to The Well-Grounded Java Developer. This book is aimed at turning you into a Java developer for the modern age, reigniting your passion for both the language and platform. Along the way, you’ll discover new Java 7 features, ensure that you’re familiar with essential modern software techniques (such as dependency injection, test-driven development, and continuous integration), and start to explore the brave new world of non-Java languages on the JVM.
To begin, let’s consider this description of the Java language provided by James Iry in a wonderful blog post “A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages”:
1996 – James Gosling invents Java. Java is a relatively verbose, garbage collected, class-based, ...
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