Chaotic Java

I’m having a lot of problems with the server lately. Many people have complained that they have tried to leave comments unsuccessfully, I hear that the RSS feeds sometimes don’t work, and even my own management is sometimes blocked off.

I am figuring out the steps I should take - upgrade my current hosting plan or switch to a different host - and a resolution should be available soon.

For those of you who try to leave comments: try, try again! If a comment is sent out twice, I will just remove it myself; please don’t let this prevent you from sending them.

In the meantime, my sincere apologies for the inconvenience.

In my earlier post I mentioned that JavaFX had some features I couldn’t understand or didn’t like all too much, and also promised to talk a bit about the new method JavaFX has for instantiating elements.

So, in order of writing in my post, here they are, my complaints:

• What is this Extent for anyway? I don’t understand it. There is a feature in JavaFX which allows you to easily access all instances of a specific class. Yeepy. But what is it good for? What I see it replaces is a mechanism sometimes used where a class would register itself in an internal, static array (weak-referenced in Java of course). But where is it used?
• Flat arrays: In JavaFX, arrays are not objects by their own right.

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JavaLobby’s list of books is great, and can help just about anyone starting their journy with Java or on their journy to achieving master-hood in Java a set of books to progress their knowledge with the language and the designs around it.

Obviously, you can’t buy all 112 - But five should enough for a good start. And for me, it’s been a while since I made an order in Amazon (shipment is expensive, making it not-worthy for a small amount of books).

So the question is, what should I buy? An obvious book for me is Refactoring book. IntelliJ just can’t do Everything no matter how good it is.

Another book I’m considering is Effective Java, which everyone seem to recommend. Okay, so these two are marked. What else? What other books should I get? If you have an recommendations, books you’ve read lately, heard they’re good, please suggest them here. Even if they’re not pure-Java: AJAX books, or design patterns books, would be accepted warmly as well (even though I do own the Design Patterns book).

Thanks!