Every Java programmer must read and understand the following books.
1. Effective Java
2. Concurrency in practice
Effective Java:
This book is authored by Joshua Bloch. He took the major role in authoring the java.util package which is [collection framework] one of the java core libraries.
He explains the best practices that every programmer should consider while writing java programs.
Some of them are:
- Contract between hashcode() and equals() of Object class when programmer overrides one of these methods in their classes
- Exceptions
- concurrency: Inter thread communication, synchronization etc
- Immutable Objects
Concurrency in practice:
This book gives complete explanation about how efficient concurrency is achieved in java programs using concurrency utility classes which were introduced in Java 5 version.
This book is authored by:
- Brian Goetz
- Tim peierls
- Joshua Bloch
- Joseph Bowbeer
- David Holmes and
- Doug Lea
You can get them from amazon in form of hard copy or soft copy or both. Get them soon. :)
