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On Page 152, change the first sentence as follows: "By the way,the main method in Listng 7-6 contains two calls to getInterest." Thanks to Stephen Lightbody for finding this error.
On Page 219 (in the "Another way to beautify your numbers" section in Chapter 10) ignore the sentence about semicolons. That is, remove "In this little example’s format string, everything before the semicolon dictates the way positive numbers are displayed, and everything after the semicolon determines the way negative numbers are displayed." (Thanks to Chuong for finding this mistake.)
On Page 243, change 2333 to 2233. Thanks to Alex Vitushkin for finding this error.
The paragraph near Figure 11-11 should read as follows: Although it’s technically not considered a step in array making, you still have to fill each object’s fields with values. For instance, the first time through the loop, the readRoom call says rooms[0].readRoom(diskScanner), which means, “Read data from the RoomList.txt file into the rooms[0] object’s fields (the guests, rate, and smoking fields).” ... Etc. (Thanks to Craig Burget for bringing this to my attention.)
In Chapter 17 (the database chapter), you now have to add an additional jar file to your project. For info, see RunningTheJDBCExamplesInJavaForDummies.pdf.

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