Top 10 Selling Java Books
What are the top selling Java Books this year, what are the top selling Java books the last month. I was wondering this whilst nursing a hangover and wondering what to blog about this afternoon. I was on the JavaCrawl website looking at the blogs and I noticed they had a link called Java books. I clicked on it and it had a list of the top selling Java books. I thought it was interesting to see what Java developers were buying.
http://www.javacrawl.com/java-books-j2ee-books
It's interesting that books are still so popular despite the wealth of free information on available on the internet. Some people I know don't like paper books and prefer pdf files because they can search the book easily. I myself find it much easier to read a paper book rather than sit at the computer and read, although I do read many free sample chapters and articles, I still prefer to buy a book.
this is the top selling Java books according to Javacrawl, I'm not really sure they where they have got these figures from but I will just comment on them. These figures are from the JavaCrawl website
I am glad the Head First books are top of the list because I find them very easy and enjoyable to read and I would recommend reading them or going to Oreilly's website and reading a free chapter to see if you like their style. It is interesting to see that a book on design patterns is top of the selling chart. Amusingly I own the top four books, so it looks like my behavior and taste in Java books is similar to a lot of other Java Developers out there.
The list shows that Hibernate and Spring really have made it into the main stream with having books in the top ten and of course there is no struts books, has struts had it day?. There are three learning Java books in the top ten, I would have expected to see more in there.
The link also has the top selling books last month has a quite unusual look to it and if someone had asked me I wouldn't gave guessed more than one of them and I don't think I even know what a smart card is, perhaps I should buy a book about it
http://www.javacrawl.com/java-books-j2ee-books
It's interesting that books are still so popular despite the wealth of free information on available on the internet. Some people I know don't like paper books and prefer pdf files because they can search the book easily. I myself find it much easier to read a paper book rather than sit at the computer and read, although I do read many free sample chapters and articles, I still prefer to buy a book.
this is the top selling Java books according to Javacrawl, I'm not really sure they where they have got these figures from but I will just comment on them. These figures are from the JavaCrawl website
1. Head First Design Patterns
2. Head First Java, 2nd Edition
3. SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide (Exam 310-055) (Certification Press Study Guide
4. Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam (SCWCD)
5. Head First EJB (Brain-Friendly Study Guides; Enterprise JavaBeans)
6. Hibernate in Action (In Action series)
7. Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition
8. Spring in Action (In Action series)
9. Thinking in Java (4th Edition)
10. JBoss at Work: A Practical Guide
I am glad the Head First books are top of the list because I find them very easy and enjoyable to read and I would recommend reading them or going to Oreilly's website and reading a free chapter to see if you like their style. It is interesting to see that a book on design patterns is top of the selling chart. Amusingly I own the top four books, so it looks like my behavior and taste in Java books is similar to a lot of other Java Developers out there.
The list shows that Hibernate and Spring really have made it into the main stream with having books in the top ten and of course there is no struts books, has struts had it day?. There are three learning Java books in the top ten, I would have expected to see more in there.
The link also has the top selling books last month has a quite unusual look to it and if someone had asked me I wouldn't gave guessed more than one of them and I don't think I even know what a smart card is, perhaps I should buy a book about it
1. Sun Certified Developer for Java Web Services Study Guide (Exam 310-220)
2. Beginning Java 5 Game Programming
3. Learning UML 2.0
4. Java EE and .NET Interoperability : Integration Strategies, Patterns, and Best Practices
5. Pro Apache Geronimo
6. Design Patterns in Java(TM) (2nd Edition) (Software Patterns Series)
7. Eclipse Modeling Framework 2.0 (2nd Edition)
8. Pro Apache Maven (Pro)
9. Introduction to Computing and Programming with Java : A Multimedia Approach
10. Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications : 7th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDI
posted by The Hosk at
3:28 pm
7 Comments:
Struts is not on the top 10 list because everyone already has at least one Struts book.
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Anonymous, at Mon May 08, 02:03:00 am 2006
Struts is not on the top 10 list because everyone already has at least one Struts book.
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Anonymous, at Mon May 08, 02:04:00 am 2006
I don't now if many people own struts books because there is a lot of free information available on the internet.
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The Hosk, at Mon May 08, 02:40:00 pm 2006
The Java Books page is derived from Amazon's web services. The rankings are based on their sales data.
Thanks for the mention!
Jason Jones
www.javacrawl.com
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