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The Well-Grounded Java Developer
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The Well-Grounded Java Developer

by Benjamin Evans, Martijn Verburg
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
496 pages
16h 42m
English
Manning Publications
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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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