This book is designed to help you make the most effective use of the Java™ programming language and its fundamental libraries, , , and, to a lesser extent, . The book discusses other libraries from time to time, but it does not cover graphical user interface programming or enterprise APIs. | Effective Java: Programming Language Guide Joshua Bloch Publisher: Addison Wesley First Edition June 01, 2001 ISBN: 0-201-31005-8, 272 pages Are you ready for a concise book packed with insight and wisdom not found elsewhere? Do you want to gain a deeper understanding of the Java programming language? Do you want to write code that is clear, correct, robust, and reusable? Look no further! This book will provide you with these and many other benefits you may not even know you were looking for. Featuring fifty-seven valuable rules of thumb, Effective Java Programming Language Guide contains working solutions to the programming challenges most developers encounter each day. Offering comprehensive descriptions of techniques used by the experts who developed the Java platform, this book reveals what to do - and what not to do - in order to produce clear, robust and efficient code. Table of Contents Foreword. 1 Preface. 3 Chapter 1. Introduction. 5 Chapter 2. Creating and Destroying Objects 8 Item 1: Consider providing static factory methods instead of constructors. 8 Item 2: Enforce the singleton property with a private constructor. 11 Item 3: Enforce noninstantiability with a private constructor 13 Item 4: Avoid creating duplicate objects 13 Item 5: .
