Ken Arnold and James Gosling. 1998. 2nd ed, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. [ISBN 0-201-31006-6. 464 pages, including index. $37.95 (softcover).] As more technical communicators settle into documenting the inner workings of systems and related programming outputs, publications like The Java programming language are settling into places of honor on writers' bookshelves.