Rating:  - A nice addtion
I wouldn't use this as my only reference for java. It is more detailed than 'Cobol Programmers Swing with Java' but it is a good reference for commands that the other book doesn't have. It also shows things with slightly different examples. I haven't had time yet to go through the stuff n the CD that comes with the book.
Rating:  - Good starter java book when bridging from COBOL
I found this book to be much more helpful in explaining the basics than other books whose audience was former C programmers. Most people talk about OO programming as some new high-faluting process that the mainframe COBOL programmer will have great difficulty understanding. As I am in a shop that makes much use of copybooks and called subroutines, I could relate to Byrne's explanations. They took away the mystique of OO programming.
Rating: - Java for Cobol Programmers
This is not a bad book for the Cobol programmers who are trying to learn Object Oriented language Java. Very good parallels between classes and Cobol subroutine. Most of the Java books are written by former C++ programmers, who do not know Cobol. But Mr. Burne trying find some common ground between Java and Cobol, to simplify learning. I gave it 4 stars, it would be nice to have some Input and Output File processing, GUI and JDBC coverages. But over all, this is much better book than Doke and Hardgrave book with similar title.
Rating: - Not to bad - but could have been better.
I had heard that this was a really good book for COBOL programmers who were now learning Java. It didn't really tie the two together very well. The author obviously has not keep up with the innovation in COBOL over the last few years. COBOL for MVS has FUNCTIONs that would have made better examples in some places. After completing this book I felt that it didn't really tell may much more that the other intro to Java books I had read. And the last chapters really lost me. It jumped from entry level stuff to chapters that seemed to be taken from some technical presentation. To me the next step should have been how Java does external data I/O. After I completed this book, I found that the book that I really wanted was "Java for the COBOL Programmer (Advances in Object Technology".
Rating:  - Great Introduction for Cobol programmers
I found this book extremely useful. I have been a programmer for 20 years, and this is the first book I've found that explained Java in a way I could understand. I liked the way the author started with simple examples, and then kept building on them. Definitely a big help to me. The chapter on XML was interesting too.
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