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Description: Best Selling Book and Author Josh Bloch! Download the Effective Java app to try out all the features of the app and sample a featured chapter for FREE. If you like it, you can buy the entire application and unlock all remaining chapters through the convenient in-app purchase option. The Effective Java reader app brings to your mobile bookshelf the best selling book on Java from Prentice Hall Professional, a publishing imprint of Pearson Education:

ABOUT THE READER APPLICATION
Pearson has developed an iPhone app that includes all the standard features you expect in a reader such as easy navigation, search, and hyperlinking. We didn't stop there. In developing the App we wanted to include features specifically beneficial to the development community, including:

* Scroll vertically and horizontally through long code listings using Code View
* Access to all of the sample programs via the email feature in Code View
* Highlighting and Bookmarking both supported
*Search the current chapter and the current book quickly and easily

Sample featured chapters for FREE. Like what you see, simply use the in-app purchase option to unlock the entire library application.

EFFECTIVE JAVA

"I sure wish I had this book ten years ago. Some might think that I don't need any Java books, but I need this one."
-James Gosling, fellow and vice president, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

"10/10-anyone aspiring to write good Java code that others will appreciate reading and maintaining should be required to own a copy of this book. This is one of those rare books where the information won't become obsolete with subsequent releases of the JDK library."
-Peter Tran, bartender, JavaRanch.com

Effective Java™, Second Edition, brings together seventy-eight indispensable programmer's rules of thumb: working, best-practice solutions for the programming challenges you encounter every day.

Highlights include:
* New coverage of generics, enums, annotations, autoboxing, the for-each loop, varargs, concurrency utilities, and much more
* Updated techniques and best practices on classic topics, including objects, classes, libraries, methods, and serialization
* How to avoid the traps and pitfalls of commonly misunderstood subtleties of the language
* Focus on the language and its most fundamental libraries: java.lang, java.util, and,

Joshua Bloch is chief Java architect at Google and a Jolt Award winner. He was previously a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems and a senior systems designer at Transarc. Bloch led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the award-winning Java Collections Framework. He coauthored Java Puzzlers (Addison-Wesley, 2005) and Java Concurrency in Practice (Addison-Wesley, 2006).

About Pearson
The global leader in educational and professional publishing, Pearson is home to such respected brands as Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Pearson IT Certification, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, and Sams Publishing, which have as their online publishing arm InformIT (www.informit.com) -The Trusted Technology Learning Source. In addition, Berkeley-based Peachpit (www.peachpit.com), the publishing partner for Adobe Press, Apple Certified, and others, publishes best-selling books for creative design professionals. Pearson is also co-founder, with O'Reilly Media Inc., of Safari Books Online (http://safari.informit.com), the premier on-demand technology content library providing thousands of expert reference materials through a single point of contact, including expert technology, creative and design, industry and management resources in video, audio and written formats. Pearson Education is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. Pearson's other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.