O'Reilly Released "Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook"

and calls it a crash course in the next evolution of Java. The next version of Java, code-named Tiger, is more than just a minor update. With more than one hundred substantial changes to the core language and numerous library and API additions, developers will have a variety of new features, facilities, and techniques to master. Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook (McLaughlin and Flanagan, O'Reilly, US $29.95) is a no-nonsense guide by best-selling Java authors Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan that sidesteps the dull prose and lecture and jumps right into the jaws of Tiger according to the publisher.