The Well-Grounded Java Developer

Preface

This book started life as a set of training notes written for new graduate intake in the Foreign Exchange IT department of Deutsche Bank. One of us (Ben), looking at the existing books on the market, found a lack of up-to-date material aimed at inexperienced Java developers. So he resolved to write that missing book.

With the encouragement of Deutsche’s IT management team, Ben traveled to the Devoxx conference in Belgium to look for inspiration on additional topics. There, he met three IBM engineers (Rob Nicholson, Zoe Slattery, and Holly Cummins), who introduced him to the London Java Community (LJC—London’s Java User Group).

The following Saturday was the annual Open Conference organized by the LJC—and it was at that conference that ...