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The Java Language Specification

The Java Language Specification, Second Edition is the definitive technical reference for the Java programming language and provides complete, accurate, and detailed coverage of the syntax and semantics of the Java language.

The Java Programming Language

The Java (TM)Programming Language, Second Edition, is the definitive resource for all serious Java programmers and lets you in on the rationale behind Java's design, direct from the language's creator, as well as the tradeoffs involved in using specific features.

The Real-Time Specification for Java

RTSJ's features and the thinking behind the specification's design are explained, which aims to provide a platform-a Java execution environment and application program interface (API) that lets programmers correctly reason about the temporal behavior of executing software.
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The Java Language Specification, 3rd Edition

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The Java Language Specification, Java SE 8 Edition

The Java SE 8 Edition provides complete, accurate, and detailed coverage of the Java programming language, including lambda expressions, method references, default methods, type annotations, and repeating annotations.

The java language environment: a white paper

To understand abstract methods, the authors look at the notion of an abstract superclass, a class in which you define methods that aren’t actually implemented by that class—they only provide place-holders such that subsequent subclasses can override those methods and supply their actual implementation.

Java Language Specification, Second Edition: The Java Series

The Java Language Specification, Second Edition is the definitive technical reference for the Java programming language and provides complete, accurate, and detailed coverage of the syntax and semantics of the Java language.

Java(TM) Language Specification, The (3rd Edition) (Java (Addison-Wesley))

The book provides full coverage of all new features added since the previous edition, including generics, annotations, asserts, autoboxing, enums, for-each loops, variable arity methods, and static import clauses.

Java(TM) Language Specification

A contrived example where there unconventionally-named package V ctor is declared, which declares apublic class named Mosquito and then the compilation unit, which is the package strange.example, is constructed.

The Java programming language (2nd ed.)

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