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Java in a Nutshell, 9th Edition
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Java in a Nutshell, 9th Edition

by Benjamin J. Evans, Jason R. Clark, David Flanagan
August 2026
Beginner to intermediate
538 pages
14h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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About the Authors

Benjamin J. Evans is a Java Champion and senior principal software engineer at Red Hat. Previously he was lead architect for instrumentation at New Relic, and cofounded jClarity, a performance tools startup acquired by Microsoft. He has also worked as chief architect for listed derivatives at Deutsche Bank and as senior technical instructor for Morgan Stanley. He served for six years on the Java Community Process Executive Committee, helping define new Java standards. Ben is the author of six books—including Optimizing Java, the new editions of Java in a Nutshell, and the recently updated The Well-Grounded Java Developer—and he writes regularly for Oracle’s Java Magazine and other industry publications.

Jason Clark is a staff software engineer at GitHub, where he has worked on everything from remote development environments to cloud-based agentic systems. Previously, he worked at New Relic, instrumenting user applications and then ingesting petabyte-scale telemetry data with JVM data processing pipelines.

David Flanagan is a computer programmer who spends most of his time writing about JavaScript and Java. His books with O’Reilly include Java in a Nutshell, Java Examples in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and JavaScript Pocket Reference. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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