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Core Java, Volume II: Advanced Features, 14th Edition
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Core Java, Volume II: Advanced Features, 14th Edition

by Cay S. Horstmann
November 2025
Intermediate to advanced
852 pages
26h
English
Pearson
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Preface

To the Reader

The book you have in your hands is the second volume of the thirteenth edition of Core Java, fully updated for Java 25. The first volume covers the essential features of the language; this volume deals with the advanced topics that a programmer needs to know for professional software development. Thus, as with the first volume and the previous editions of this book, we are still targeting programmers who want to put Java technology to work in real projects.

With the explosive growth of the Java class library, a one-volume treatment of all the features of Java that serious programmers need to know is simply not possible. Hence, the book is broken up into two volumes.

This first volume concentrates on the fundamental concepts ...

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ISBN: 9780135558775