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The subtitle of this book is ``from newcomer to professional'', that is it promises to accompany the reader from his first programming steps to the development of complex netbased applications. The list of topics is impressive. It begins with elementary programming concepts like data types and Nashi-Shneiderman-diagrams, a brief history of programming languages leads to the object oriented paradigm and a first example of Java code. The next nine chapters cover Java as a programming language in detail. Here the concepts common to most programming languages whether object-oriented or not are treated, but also the embedding of Java into operating systems, installation and Javadoc as well as general principles of operating systems. The reader learns the details of internal representation of floats, internal stacks and heap, and something about byte-code and the virtual machine. Things more specific to Java like packages, exception handling, interfaces, nested classes, streams, collections and threads follow. The last ten chapters cover advanced topics. Here the virtual machine and the Java native interface are explained in detail. The exposition of GUI-programming with swing is concise but complete with code examples for nearly every relevant class. The chapter on servlets includes an overview of internet services and client-server architecture. Other topics are Java beans, RMI, JDBC, Java sandbox policy (including general security issues) and network programming with sockets (including background information on TCP/IP). The book is abundant with code examples, which are, together with exercises and solutions, downloadable from the authors website. The authors give recommendations for the order of reading, the book is also suited for a reference book thanks to several appendices. The book really keeps its promises.