Java Garage

Adopting an unconventional style bordering on the sarcastic, Hewitt offers his personal take on operators, strings, arrays, inheritance, declaring and modifying classes, documenting code with Javadoc, handling exceptions, creating GUIs with Swing, and using the system and runtime classes. "Garage" in the title refers to the idea of the workshop--the place where you go to tinker around with stuff, to tear it apart and build it back together again, to repair something that's not working. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Eben Hewitt

Eben is a Sun Certified Java Programmer, Sun Certified Web Component Developer, Sun Certified Java Developer, and Senior Java Programmer/Analyst for Discount Tire Company in Scottsdale, AZ. He is the Garage Series Editor, and the author of four other programming books, including the acclaimed Java for ColdFusion Developers, and the forthcoming More Java Garage. He has been an invited speaker on Java at regional user groups.

Eben has a Master's Degree in Literary Theory, and had his first full-length, original play produced in New York City in 1996. Questions haunt him in this Champagne-light and Orwellian time:Who will win, Struts or Faces?What if they trade Johnson to the Yankees?At long last, have we left no sense of decency?

He and his family, Alison, Zoë, Mister Apache Tomcat, Doodle, and Noodle, burn to ashes every summer.