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Because you are currently reading Learning Java:

The Everlasting Man
by G. K. Chesterton

What, if anything, is it that makes the human unique human?

I'm guessing it's not Java.

22. JavaBeans

20. Drawing with the 2D API

11. Core Utilities

8. Generics

7. Working with Objects and Classes

Chapter 6. Relationships Among Classes

5. Objects in Java

3. Tools of the Trade

2. A First Application

Oh golly XML. Even the chapter is verbose.

Don't feel all that enlightened by the chapter on bean architecture. (Seems like a tautology to me.) Going to skip applets and do my best to power through on XML.

Wrapped up servlets; skipping all that Swing junk.

Set let's & JSPs — been waiting for this.

Learning quite a bit about RMI (though the knowledge isn't much useful outside Java). Most interesting tidbit so far: that when brokering in RMI, you are literally getting back a reference to an object on that remote host. (Also: what separates it from DTOs, and what DTOs even are in this sense.)

Wrapping up info on Java object serialization; moving on to RMI.

Diving into java.io

Getting into it with collections and maps.

Calendars @ dates etc.

Onward to regexes...

Finished up threads; moving on to strings…

Fork/Join (which I've used before) and different types of locks...

Thread synchronization.

Introducing... threads.

More generics (some re-read required)

Now diving into generics.

And annotations.

Interface proxies.

Inner classes &c.

More stuff on overrides (re: specific method selection, dispatching)