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Product Description: This book provides a quick assessment of the upgrades included in the J2SE 1.4 release, to give a developer familiar with Java in its 1.2 and 1.3 incarnations a rapid, one-stop shop to upgrade to the new standard. It provides really strong, concrete examples of the new technologies in action, so that readers can go away and immediately apply the new capabilities of J2SE 1...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Due for release in quarter 4 of 2001, version 1.4 of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, is set to be the biggest upgrade to the functionality of the basic Java platform since the release of Java 2 over two years ago. The latest version, until recently known by the codename Merlin, represents a true commitment by Sun and the Java community to turn Java into a viable client platform, after several years of concentrating on the server...read more

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