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Re: Sun Java books (4 of them in the works).
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lisa Friendly)
Tue Oct 3 01:35:01 1995
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:31:51 -0700
From: friendly@scndprsn.eng.sun.com (Lisa Friendly)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM, clp@home.HarvardSq.com
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Sun is planning to publish a series of definitive Java books along the lines
that Charles describes in his e-mail. We are in the final stages of negotiating
with publishers and will be selecting one this month. When we have signed the
contract we will make a formal announcment.
The Java Series will include the following volumes:
The Java Language and Base System Specification
The Java Virtual Machine Specification
The Java API Documentation
The Java Reference Manual
The Java Programmer's Guide
HotJava Documentation and Related Papers
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Additional volumes will be added over time. The publication date for
the first four volumes will coincide with Java 1.0 FCS. We have not
yet publicly announced that date.
Lisa Friendly
Java Book Series Coordinator
Java Products Group
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Everyone,
Just FYI I was talking to Bill Joy a bit at the Java Day in NYC
and he mentioned that they are currently planning to split up
the (originally single) Java book into 4 smaller books that can
be finished and published separately:
(1) A reference manual, carefully and cleanly worded, that will
describe the language in the detail you'd need to write a
compiler yourself (or to be a very good Java programmer).
(2) A K&R-style (though a little less dry) programming manual.
(3) A Virtual Machine specification, complete enough to be all
you need to implement the ("C") runtime yourself.
(4) A class library description. This plus (1) is essentially
all you need to know as a programmer, though (2) may be an
easier read for beginners.
There are no dates on these books, but I'm guessing that (1)
may be finished in 1-2 months and available in 3-6 perhaps?
(Just an educated guess---Sun has said nothing about dates.)
All this is based on a short conversation, so any errors or
misrepresentations are my own.
Charles L. Perkins
Virtual Rendezvous
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