Alas, the hazards of bound books. Note that this was published in 2001. It covers JDK 1.3, also known as Java 2. The current revision is JDK 5 (which would be 1.5 if they kept the old naming conventions, I think).



That said,it should be sufficient for a lot of folks - but likely frustrating if you have the latest releases of software, since all the detailed commands will have changed (along with some of the function calls...).



Sun keeps up to date copies (downloadable) on line of all these tutorials, so I'd suggest going there first, although having two disparate copies on the go may be more trouble than it's worth, and you may end up ignoring the print version in favor of the on-line. Me, I'm keeping these for reference and have gone out and bought up to date books from other publishers.