This book does for Java what Scott Meyers' classic Effective C++ did for C++: identifies the key practices and rules that enable good developers to become great developers. IBM Java expert Peter Haggar brings together 68 rules for writing better Java 2 code, complete with insightful discussions and real-world examples. These are the "rules of thumb" expert developers have discovered: guidelines that consistently lead to clear, correct, and efficient code. Haggar focuses on the key issues virtually every Java developer faces, from general techniques (such as when to use polymorphism and when not to use method overloading); to working with objects, exception handling, performance, multithreading, classes, interfaces, and beyond. Haggar has a remarkable talent for crystallizing a problem and solution, and communicating it in words and code. The result: a book that can help any Java developer get dramatically better results -- fast.

Peter Haggar是一位公認的Java編程專傢，也是IBM資深軟件工程師。他擁有廣博的編程經驗，曾投身於開發工具、類庫（class libraries）和操作係統的方麵工作。他在IMB緻力於emerging Java技術研究，目前專門從事embedded Java和real-time Java的研究。Peter屢屢以Java技術演講人的身份齣現在眾多企業界會議上。他在Clarkson大學得計算機學士學位。