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Many of the pages might as well have the disclaimer "ADVERTISEMENT"
Perhaps the magazine has always been this way, but I've noticed lately a lot of the articles appear to be written by vendor employees about the same vendor's product. So it has become difficult to know how much of what one reads is technically useful and how much is "marketecture". <
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>The other problem frequent readers of JDJ may experience is the rehashing of some of the same content, presumably for the benefit of Java novices and new readers. While these articles may be useful for their intended audience, I would prefer this type of content be left out of the magazine and instead made available on line and on demand. <
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>I wish the Java community had a better flagship magazine.

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Poor customer service, very average quality of content
JDJ has become a monopoly of sorts and is enjoying the ride. <
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>The overall quality of the content is below average and the magazine is quite expensive for that kind of quality. <
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>A lot of the magazine is filled up with inane and poorly researched articles. To be fair, you will encounter a truly good article once in a while, but that is very rare. But then you will encounter good articles on the internet for free, once in a while anyways. So I am not sure there is a point in paying money for the same general quality of articles. <
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>Their customer service, if you ever need to work with them, is very poor. God help you if you run into some payment or online access to articles issue etc. Guess it is time they outsourced that part of their operations. <
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>First, you will never be able to talk to a live person. You will need to leave a voice mail and then keep your fingers crossed hoping someone will return your call. If you are lucky, someone will return your call, but then there is no guarantee the issue will be resolved, in which case they are trained to say "we will get back to you" and that never happens. <
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>I think I am done with this magazine.

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Excellent
One of the few excellent Java magazines widely available. Recommended for all levels, but like with other magazines, the more advanced levels do not get as much coverage. If there is only one Java magazine to get, this one is probably it.