Effective Java
by Joshua Bloch
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appears in Java, Javascript, and Programming.
Since this Joltaward winning classic was last updated in 2008 (shortly after Java 6 was released), Java has changed dramatically. The principal enhancement in Java 8 was the addition of functional Programming, constructs to Java's objectoriented roots. Java 7, 8, and 9 also introduced language features, such as the trywithresources statement, th...
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