The Java Language SpecificationThe Java Language Specification, Third Edition - Written
by the inventors of the technology, The Java Language Specification,
Third Edition is the definitive technical reference for the Java
programming language. If you want to know the precise meaning of the
language's constructs, this is the source for you.
The book provides complete, accurate, and detailed coverage of the Java
programming language. It provides full coverage of all new features
added in since the previous edition including generics, annotations,
asserts, autoboxing, enums, for each loops, variable arity methods and
static import clauses.
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James Gosling is a Fellow and Chief Technology Officer of Sun's
Developer Products group, the
creator of the Java programming language, and one of the computer
industry's most noted programmers. He is the 1996 recipient of Software
Development's "Programming Excellence Award." He previously developed NeWS,
Sun's network-extensible window system, and was a principal in the Andrew
project at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a Ph.D. in Computer
Science.
Bill Joy is a co-founder of Sun Microsystems,
where he led the company's technical strategy until September 2003,
working on both hardware
and software architecture. He is well known as the creator of the Berkeley
version of the UNIX operating system, for which he received a lifetime
achievement award from the USENIX Association in 1993. He received the ACM
Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1986. Joy has had a central role in shaping
the Java programming language. He joined KPCB as Partner in January 2005.
Guy L. Steele Jr. is a Sun Fellow at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he
is responsible for research in language design and implementation strategies,
parallel algorithms, and computer arithmetic. He is well known as the co-creator of the
Scheme programming language and for his reference books for the C programming
language (with Samuel Harbison) and for the Common Lisp programming language.
Steele received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1988 and was named an ACM
Fellow in 1994, a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001, and a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2002. He also received
the 1996 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award and the 2005
Dr Dobb's Journal Excellence In Programming Award.
Gilad Bracha is Computational Theologist at Sun Microsystems, and a
researcher
in the area of object-oriented programming languages. Prior to joining
Sun, he
worked on Strongtalk, the Animorphic Smalltalk System. He holds a B.Sc.
in
Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben Gurion University in Israel
and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah.
The Java Language
Specification, Second Edition - Written by the inventors of the technology,
this book is the definitive technical reference
for the Java programming language. If you want to know the precise
meaning of the language's constructs, this is the source for you.
The book provides complete, accurate, and detailed coverage of the
syntax and semantics of the Java programming language. It describes
all aspects of the language, including the semantics of all types,
statements, and expressions, as well as threads and binary compatibility.
You may print this book once. The printed version of this draft
book may not be photocopied without the express written permission of
Sun. For the complete copyright notice, see Copyright.
Clarifications and Amendments to The Java Language
Specification (Second Edition).
The Java Language Specification (First Edition) - With the publication of this book,
James Gosling, Bill Joy, and Guy Steele provide the definitive technical
reference for the Java programming language. It provides complete, accurate,
and detailed coverage of the entire language and its syntax. If you want to
know the precise meaning of Java's constructs, this is the source.
Published in 1996 by
Addison-Wesley.
You may print this book once. The printed version of this draft
book may not be photocopied without the express written permission of
Sun. For the complete copyright notice, see Copyright.
Changes for Java 1.1
- Originally published as Appendix D from
The Java Programming Language by Ken Arnold.
Clarifications and Amendments to The Java Language Specification
(First Edition).
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