Java The Complete Reference, 8th Edition Book Description Sales HandleAuthor Herb Schildt updates his bestselling guide to Java, covering all of the new features in Sun Microsystem’s new language release, Java 7.About the BookJava is the most popular programming language used by 38.6% of the world's developers. Sun estimates the total Java Economy to be more than $100 billion in sales annually driving an additional $110 billion in related IT spending. The Java economy includes 2.5 billion smart cards, 800 million PCs shipped with Java, 1.85 billion Java Powered phones, and over 180 telecom providers who deploy Java technology. Java 7 is Sun's brand-new language update, which is part of Sun's new open Java development initiative. Herb Schildt, the world's leading programming author, has updated and expanded his bestselling Java guide to cover Java 7, which is due to release by early 2009. Java 7 is expected to add several new features that expand the scope of the language and further refine the development experience for the programmer. New Java 7 features that are covered in the book include: closures, superpackages, reified generic types, Swing Application Framework, enhanced switch statement, chained method invocations, extension methods, enhanced catch statement, comparison of enum values, and a new chapter on language level XML support. FeaturesInternational Bestseller: the previous editions have sold over 100,000 copies. The previous editions have also earned more than $705,000 in international rights royalties.Covers the new features of Java 7 including: closures, superpackages, reified generic types, Swing Application Framework, the use of strings in a switch statement, chained invocations, extension methods, and enhanced catch statement. Author Herb Schildt's programming books have sold more than 3.5 million copiesNew chapter on language level XML support Covers Swing Application FrameworkMarket / AudienceJava developers who want to learn how to program with the newest Java release – Java 7Java is the #1 programming language used by approximately 38.6 percent of the world's developers. There are 6 million Java developers worldwide. Research from Gartner suggests that by 2008, over 80 percent of new applications will be coded in so-called "managed runtime environments," such as C#, PHP, and Java, up from 60 percent in 2006.About the AuthorHerb Schildt (Mahomet, IL) is the world's leading programming author, whose books have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. His acclaimed books include Java: The Complete Reference, C++: The Complete Reference and C#: The Complete Reference. 				    	 					 About the Author Herb Schildt (Mahomet, IL) is the world s leading programming author, with more than 3.5 million books sold worldwide. His acclaimed books include Java: The Complete Reference, C++: The Complete Reference and C#: The Complete Reference.