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Java™ Rules, Volume 2

Mastering the Fundamentals

of the Java Programming Language

Java™ Rules, Volume 2

Mastering the Fundamentals

of the Java Programming Language

Doug Dunn

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dunn, Douglas, 1958-

Mastering The Fundamentals of the Java Programming Language / Douglas Dunn.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-201-70916-3

1. Java (Computer program language) I. Title.

QA76.73.J38 D84 2001

005.13’3—dc21

2001034111

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This book is dedicated to the child in each of us

who keeps asking the annoying question “Why?”

– Doug