Core Java 2 - Softcover

Horstmann, Cay S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131482025 ISBN 13: 9780131482029

Publisher: Pearson P T R, 2004

Synopsis

Completely revised and up-to-date coverage of

• Generic programming, restrictions and limitations, type bounds, wilcard types, and generic reflection
• Swing GUI development, including input validation and other enhancements
• Exception handling and debugging, including chained exceptions, stack frames, assertions, and logging
• Streams and files, the new I/O API, memory-mapped files, file locking, and character set encoders/decoders
• Regular expressions using the powerful java.util.regex package
• Inner classes, reflection, and dynamic proxies
• Application packaging and the Preferences API

The seventh edition of Core Java™ 2, Volume I, covers the fundamentals of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE™). A no-nonsense tutorial and reliable reference, this book features thoroughly tested real-world examples. The most important language and library features are demonstrated with deliberately simple sample programs, but they aren’t fake and they don’t cut corners. More importantly, all of the programs have been updated for J2SE 5.0 and should make good starting points for your own code. You won’t find any toy examples here. This is a book for programmers who want to write real code to solve real problems.

Volume I concentrates on the fundamental concepts of the Java language, along with the basics of user-interface programming and provides detailed coverage of

• Object-oriented programming
• Reflection and proxies
• Interfaces and inner classes
• The event listener model
• Graphical user-interface design with the Swing UI toolkit
• Exception handling
• Stream input/output and object serialization
• Generic programming

For the same real-world treatment of enterprise features and advanced user-interface programming, look for the forthcoming new edition of Core Java™ 2, Volume II—Advanced Features.

It includes new sections on metadata and other J2SE 5.0 enhancements along with complete coverage of: Multithreading · Distributed objects · Databases · Advanced GUI components · Native methods · XML Processing · Network programming · Collection classes · Advanced graphics · Internationalization · JavaBeans

About this title

From the Back Cover

The best-selling guide for serious programmers of Java technology—fully updated for the Java 1.4 SDK!

• The experienced developer's guide to the Java program environment-now fully updated for the Java(tm) 1.4 SDK.
• New coverage: regular expressions, New I/O, assertions, Preferences, Swing enhancements, logging, and more
• Even more of the robust code examples professional programmers need

Ask any experienced Java technology programmer: Core Java delivers the real-world guidance you need to accomplish even the most challenging tasks. That's why it's been an international best seller for seven straight years. Core Java II, Volume 1 covers the fundamentals of Java 2, Standard Edition, Version 1.4, including major enhancements ranging from regular expressions to high-performance I/O. You'll find state-of-the-art discussions of object-oriented Java platform development, updated coverage of Swing user interface development, and much more. Best of all, this new Sixth Edition delivers even more of the robust, real-world programs previous editions are famous for—updated to reflect the latest SDK features and improvements!

State-of-the-art information for Java platform developers, including:

• Swing GUI development—including input validation and other enhancements
• Building reliable code—including chained exceptions, stack frames, assertions, and logging
• The high-performance New I/O API: memory-mapped files, file locking, and character set encoders/decoders
• Regular expressions using the powerful new java.util.regex package
• Java 1.4 platform Preference Class: the new cross-platform repository for configuration information
• Dynamic proxy classes, inner classes, the Java platform event model, streams, file management, and more

About the Author

Cay S. Horstmann is a professor of computer science at San Jose State University. Previously he was vice president and chief technology officer of Preview Systems Inc. and a consultant on C++, Java, and Internet programming for major corporations, universities, and organizations.

Gary Cornell has written or cowritten more than twenty popular computer books. He has a Ph.D. from Brown University and has been a visiting scientist at IBM Watson Laboratories, as well as a professor at the University of Connecticut.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson P T R
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0131482025
• ISBN 13: 9780131482029
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 762