Who’s Who : Java Glossary

Who’s Who

Here is a beginning at a listing of the technically (as opposed to politically) important people in the world of Java and comp.lang.java.programmer .

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Who’s Who

Who

Company

Book

What they do

Steve Chapel

s-chapel.com

One of the comp.lang.java.programmer angels who endlessly and patiently guides newbies to the appropriate place in various FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions).

Mike Cowlishaw

IBM

recommend book⇒The NetRexx Language

Michael F. Cowlishaw

978-0-13-806332-0

hardcover

publisher

Prentice Hall

published

1997-01

Out of print

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Father of Rexx and NetRexx. General purpose genius.

Jon Cruz

cruzweb.net

One of the comp.lang.java.programmer angels who deals with some of the tougher platform-specific questions.

David Flanagan

O’Reilly Books

recommend book⇒Java In a Nutshell, A Desktop Quick Reference, fifth edition

David Flanagan

978-0-596-00773-7

paperback

publisher

O’Reilly

978-981-235875-2

hardcover

published

2005-03-15

978-1-4493-6668-1

eBook

B00BQN40JC

kindle

covers Java 1.5. The whole enchilada, a hefty 1264 pages. Make sure you get the fifth edition.

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recommend book⇒Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell

David Flanagan

978-1-56592-488-8

paperback

publisher

O’Reilly

published

1999-12-15

Out of print.

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recommend book⇒Java Examples in a Nutshell: A Tutorial Companion to Java in a Nutshell, third edition

David Flanagan

978-0-596-00620-4

paperback

publisher

O’Reilly

978-0-596-55232-9

eBook

published

2004-01-01

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Author of the classic Java In A Nutshell, now split into three different books Java in a Nutshell : The Desktop Quick Reference, The Java Foundation Classes and Java Examples in a Nutshell.

dIon Gillard

(born: 1967-05-05 died: 2008-09-25 at age: 41)

Vegemite eater from Down Under; known to appear in public in white pajamas with white polka dots. Documented the undocumented Sun classes. SCID advocate. Bloody genius.

James Gosling

Sun

recommend book⇒The Java Programing Language, fourth edition

Ken Arnold, James Gosling, David Holmes

978-0-321-34980-4

paperback

publisher

Prentice Hall

published

2005-08-27

This is not The Java Language Specification, the formal language specification. This is not a suitable book for beginners. The fifth edition, 978-0-13-276168-0, is due out 2013-04-11.

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Father of Java. Author of The Java Language Specification (Java Series) (

Oracle’s Miscellaneous documentation on online

Roedy Green

Canadian Mind Products

online Java Glossary

Maintains the Java & Internet Glossary you are now reading; Java futurist. Father of Abundance.

Marty Hall

Johns Hopkins University

recommend book⇒Core Web Programming, second edition

Marty Hall and Gary Cornell

978-0-13-089793-0

paperback

publisher

Prentice Hall

978-0-613-92274-6

hardcover

published

2001-06-03

1250 pages. Also has some simple RMI examples. This is a great doorstop of a book. It has a few chapters on client-server programming in Java, and a section of that is on CGI. I have looked at hundreds of Java books and found nothing that deals in depth with client side Java talking to CGI, except Marty’s book. It is really very simple and he does an excellent job of explaining it. Marty has posted all the source code examples from the book for anyone to use. These contain updates and errata fixes you don’t get on the CD-ROM that comes with the book.

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recommend book⇒Core Servlets and Javaserver Pages: Advanced Technologies, Vol. 2, second edition

Marty Hall, Larry Brown, Yaakov Chaikin

978-0-13-148260-9

paperback

publisher

Prentice Hall

978-0-13-271568-3

eBook

published

2007-12-01

B004YWAZFA

kindle

Complete text of the book available on line in pdf format.

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recommend book⇒More Servlets and Java Server Pages

Marty Hall

978-0-13-067614-6

paperback

publisher

Pearson Education

published

2001-12-26

Complete text of the book available on line in pdf format.

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pretty well the only book on using CGI (Common Gateway Interface) and client-side Java together. He is probably the clearest writer on Java. Marty has posted all the source code examples from the book for anyone to use. These contain updates and errata fixes you don’t get on the CD-ROM (Compact Disc — Read Only Memory) that comes with the book. Marty used to maintain a set of Links to Java resources.

Dave Harris

B H Research

Accurate, fair, knowledgeable, Java guru emeritus. Now defected to Smalltalk.

David Holmes

Macquarie University

expert on threads.

Anders Hejlsberg

Microsoft

Creator of Delphi, C# and LINq. The champion of the average programmer making coding terser and easier.

Arthur van Hoff

recommend book⇒Hooked on Java

Arthur van Hoff

978-0-201-48837-1

paperback

birth

1963 age: 49

publisher

Addison Wesley

published

1996-01

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Father of the AWT (Advanced Windowing Toolkit), Marimba and Bongo, and author of great chunks of the JDK (Java Development Kit) and Hooked on Java.

Bill Joy

Sun

recommend book⇒The Java Programing Language, fourth edition

Ken Arnold, James Gosling, David Holmes

978-0-321-34980-4

paperback

publisher

Prentice Hall

published

2005-08-27

This is not The Java Language Specification, the formal language specification. This is not a suitable book for beginners. The fifth edition, 978-0-13-276168-0, is due out 2013-04-11.

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Creator of Jini. Author of The Java Language Specification (Java Series). One of the people I’d most enjoy being stuck on a desert island with. He has an incredibly subtle low key sense of self deprecating humour. Intelligence oozes from his every pore. Author of the famous Wired article Why the future doesn't need us..

Matt Kennel

University of California San Diego

Scholar who adds light and removes heat from Java debates.

Dale King

Thomson Multimedia makers of RCA (Radio Corporation of America), GE and ProScan consumer electronics.

One of the comp.lang.java.programmer angels who definitively answers hundreds of difficult questions each month.

Donald Knuth

Stanford University

recommend book⇒Origin Of Species

Charles Darwin

978-0-451-52906-0

paperback

birth

1809-02-12 died: 1882-04-19 at age: 73

978-0-679-60070-1

hardcover

publisher

Signet Classics

978-0-679-64130-8

eBook

published

2003-09-02

978-1-4001-0215-0

audio

B002JF1N0A

kindle

This in one of the few books of the period that stand up to repeated readings today.

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Wayne Kovsky

Colorado Software Summit

Organises the Colorado Java Software summit each Winter in the mountains of Colorado.

Leo Laporte

labwithleo.com

Host of the best TV show on new technology and troubleshooting, the Lab with Leo Laporte.

Peter van der Linden

Sun

recommend book⇒Just Java 2, sixth edition

Peter van der Linden

978-0-13-148211-1

paperback

publisher

Prentice Hall

978-0-13-700990-9

eBook

published

2004-07-01

978-0-13-493982-7

audio

B001MDC0FW

kindle

Covers Java 5 aka 1.5. Peter has a sense of humour and breaks the drudgery of reading with a funny story at the end of each chapter. He explains through simple examples. This is a book you can sit down and read and not fall asleep. I helped edit and proofread the chapters on enums and genericity. This is good introduction that won’t overwhelm you.

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Author of the Java FAQ. Author of Just Java 2.

Peter Mehlitz

Transvirtual

Developed the first lightweight widget AWT system for BISS.

Bertrand Meyer

Interactive Software Engineering

recommend book⇒Object-Oriented Software Construction

Bertrand Meyer

978-0-13-629155-8

paperback

birth

1950 age: 62

978-0-13-629049-0

hardcover

publisher

Prentice Hall

published

2000-03-21

This is the classic text on object-oriented programming. This is the best-written computer textbook on any subject I have yet encountered. If you ever plan to write a book, look at this to see how it should be done. He uses the Eiffel language for his examples. This could be confusing if you don’t already have little Java under your belt. This is not a book on coding, but rather on the general object-oriented principles behind the languages.

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Jan Newmarch

Expert on events.

John Ousterhout

source Forge

recommend book⇒Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, second edition

John K. Ousterhout, Ken Jones

978-0-321-33633-0

paperback

publisher

Addison-Wesley

978-0-321-67086-1

eBook

published

2009-09-12

B002MV2YZ4

kindle

John is the originator of Tk/Tcl (Tool Command Language) an open source, portable, extensible, interpreted script language and full-featured GUI library that predates Java. His work helped pave the way for Java by showing that platform-independent GUI code was feasible.

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Donald Knuth’s work

David Pollack

Athena

Developed the first collaborative spreadsheet, Integer.

Linda Radecke

She was one of the comp.lang.java.gui angels who patiently, completely and accurately answered hundreds of questions about how Swing works. She has stopped posting and maintaining her jalice.com website.

Jonathan Revusky

Crystalline Solutions

Designer of SmartJ. Advocate for more streamlined, user-friendly, computer tools.

Patricia Shanahan

ACM

One of the comp.lang.java.programmer angels who patiently, completely and accurately answers hundreds of newbie questions each month. She pours oil on troubled waters of debate. We consider her the final authority on any matter concerning the Java language specification.

Chris Smith

home page

One of the comp.lang.java.programmer angels who succinctly answers hundreds of newbie questions each month.

Jon Skeet

home page

Another of the comp.lang.java.programmer angels who indefatigably answers hundreds of newbie questions each month.

Bjarne Stroustrup

AT&T

recommend book⇒The Design and Evolution of C++

Bjarne Stroustrup

978-0-201-54330-8

paperback

birth

1950-12-30 age: 62

publisher

Addison-Wesley

published

1994-04-08

This is a fascinating book about the birth of a new computer language C++. He talks about the politics, the compromises, and the factors that made him design C++ the way it is.

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recommend book⇒The C++ Programming Language, third edition

Bjarne Stroustrup

978-0-201-88954-3

paperback

birth

1950-12-30 age: 62

978-0-201-70073-2

hardcover

publisher

Addison-Wesley

published

1997-06-30

A reference manual for C++, rather formal. fourth edition due 2013-01-04.

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recommend book⇒The Annotated C++ Reference Manual

Margaret A. Ellis, Bjarne Stroustrup

978-0-201-51459-9

paperback

publisher

Addison-Wesley

published

1990-01-11

A book for language lawyers on the fine points of C++. It is not suitable for initially learning the language. It is really more aimed at compiler writers. It covers C++ implementation techniques including vtbls.

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Father of C++, the forerunner of Java.

Mr. Tines

Ravna And Tines

C/Java hybrid CTCjava crypto tool

Cryptography evangelist. Den mother of the newbies in comp.lang.java.help .

Bill Wilkinson

UIEvolution

Entertaining discoverer and documenter of gotchas in Java, particularly involving serialization.

Tim Wilkinson

Transvirtual

Father of Kaffe, a cleanroom JVM (Java Virtual Machine) implementation. Original designer and developer of the Java SmartCard.

Niklaus Wirth

ETH

recommend book⇒Compiler Construction

Niklaus Wirth

978-0-201-40353-4

paperback

birth

1934-02-15 age: 79

publisher

Addison-Wesley

published

1996-06

Author of Compiler Construction. Father of Pascal, Modula, Oberon, Euler… Advocate of lean languages that compile and execute quickly.

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Author of Compiler Construction. Father of Pascal, Modula, Oberon, Euler… Advocate of lean languages that compile and execute quickly.

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