Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
| Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| xxx? first paragraph |
Can't tell on which page this is as I am reading this on safari. |
Anonymous | May 06, 2016 | |
| xxx? second half of the page |
Finally the Application classloader is created, which is responsible for loading in user classes from the defined classpath. Some texts unfortunately refer to this as the “System” classloader. This term should be avoided, for the simple reason tht it doesn’t load the system (the Bootstrap classloader does). The Application classloader is encountered extremely frequently, and it has the Extension loader as its parent. |
Anonymous | May 06, 2016 | |
| ??? bottom of the page |
Analysing the performance of small sections of Java code (“microbenchmarks”) is usually actually harder than .... |
Anonymous | May 06, 2016 | |
| ??? Chapter 7. Advanced Garbage Collection.G1 part |
G1 max region size is 32MB according to /src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/heapRegionBounds.hpp. |
Anonymous | Oct 19, 2018 | |
| chapter 1 Section "Reading Performance Graphs" between figures 1-4 and 1-5. |
Where the text reads: |
Amy Boyle | May 18, 2019 | |
| ? Chapter 3, The Scheduler; code snippet and paragraph of text above |
The text says "The following code executes 1,000 separate 1 ms sleeps. ", however the code example executes 2000 separate 2 ms sleeps. |
boylea | Jul 21, 2019 | |
| Printed | Page 40 4th paragraph |
The calculation of effective memory bandwith looks odd. |
Juraj Martinka | Apr 10, 2019 |
| Page 54 Figure 3-9 "Virtualisation of operating systems" |
In the virtualization diagram at page 54, "Harware" is used instead of (I suppose) "Hardware". |
Luca Bellonda | Sep 02, 2016 | |
| Printed | Page 83 First and second list |
There are two lists on the page which are both numbered 1 and 2, however, the text refers to them by letters A-D. I believe the first list should be A, B, instead of 1, 2, and the second list should be C, D, instead of 1, 2. |
Aaron de Souza | Sep 08, 2018 |
| Printed | Page 106 Paragraph starting 'The modification is to use' |
'starting from the mean' should surely be 'starting from the median'. The samples shown are percentiles, and the 50% percentile is the median _not_ the mean; e.g. if only the slowest samples get even slower, this affects the mean but not the median. It might be worth the authors pointing this out as another reason the mean isn't very useful. |
Anonymous | Sep 22, 2018 |
| Printed | Page 146 Figure 7-1. |
I think Figure 7-1 is confusing. According to Tri-colored Marking algorithm, the nodes which are directly reachable from root sets are colored gray at the beginning. Then, the gray nodes turn to black and the nodes which they reference are colored gray. This continues until no gray nodes are left. |
Anonymous | Oct 17, 2018 |
| Printed | Page 177 First paragraph |
Just below figure 8-2, the paragraph mentions software as a service as “SAAS” when it’s usually listed as “SaaS” |
David Robillard | Nov 16, 2018 |
| Printed | Page 191 First paragraph |
The list of “Initial Mark” and “Remark” has an asterisk in front of “Remark”. This asterisk probably shouldn’t be there. |
David Robillard | Nov 16, 2018 |
| Printed | Page 256 Table 10-4, line 5 |
In « javax.swing.plaf.basic,BasicLookAndFeel.initComponentDefault() » the comma should instead be a dot. |
David Robillard | Nov 21, 2018 |
| Printed | Page 262 Last line of the ArrayList paragraph |
In the ArrayList paragraph, the method name ensureCapacity() should be formatted in a constant width font as per the books convention. |
David Robillard | Nov 26, 2018 |