Thank you Murach for bringing such a nice book into the market. Certainly this book will act as reference book for many developers who are working in Java and would like to know about the new features available in Java SE 7.It works if you already known an older version of Java and want to learn more about latest version. Thus this book is not for the beginners, before reading this book you should have some basic knowledge about java or java like technology. As per as my concern, I think that the book is well organized and chapters are well formatted .The reader can easily pick the topic of their interest. This book support current version of jdk(1.7) which is provided by the Oracle web site. The Mac OS X operating system support this version of jdk(1.7) My topic of interest in this book are Section 1 and Section 4 where I get an review about GUI programming with Swing. This book will be helpful to learn the advance features of java. Let's see what this book covers in detail. There are six sections in this book. In each section autor has describe about different-2 features of java.
Section 1
In this section you learn about how to get started with NetBeans, how to write console application,how to code applications that use custom methods and at last how to use NetBeans to test and debug application.
Section 2 In this section you will found how to use java for object-oriented programming and how to use three tiered architecture.
Section 3 In this section you will work with arrays, collections, dates, strings and exceptions. you'll also learn JDK 1.7 features such as try-with-resources statement
Section 4 In this section we learn about GUI programming (swing, applets and java application which are run with server).
Section 5 In this section we learn about how to store data in a file or database. We also learn how to use API(STAX, API for xml) ,database like Apache Derby and JDBC to work with any database.
Section 6 In this section we learn advance Java Skills like Threads and also learn how to deploy your finished applications using executable JAR files or java web start.
Thus finally we can say that this book help us to develop an application at a professional level and wants to say thanks the author of the book Joel Murach and the whole production team.