Effective Java 3rd Edition PDF

This book addresses your third need: customary and effective usage. Joshua Bloch has spent years extending, implementing, and using the Java programming language at Sun Microsystems; he has also read a lot of other people’s code, including mine. Here he offers good advice, systematically organized, on how to structure your code so that it works well, so that other people can understand it, so that future modifications and improvements are less likely to cause headaches—perhaps, even, so that your programs will be pleasant, elegant, and graceful.

I still like Java, though my ardor has cooled a bit as the platform has grown. Given its increased size and complexity, the need for an up-to-date best-practices guide is all the more critical. With this third edition of  Effective Java, I did my best to provide you with one. I hope this edition continues to satisfy the need, while staying true to the spirit of the first two editions. (Effective Java 3rd Edition; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional [2018]; Preface:  Page 15)