Advanced Techniques for Java Developers - Softcover

Berg, Daniel J.; Fritzinger, J. Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471182087 ISBN 13: 9780471182085

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Leading Java experts show you how to design and develop Java applications using the latest Java technologies included in JDK 1.1 and JDK 1.2

Are you an experienced Java programmer ready to take the leap from applet programming to building full-blown business applications? Then this is the book for you. The authors and contributors show you techniques using the latest Java technologies that dramatically extend the capabilities of Java. This book includes the latest in Java Media, RMI, JDBC, JFC, JavaBeans, security, and more. This is the first book where Java experts come together to show you what technology and techniques they use to produce real-world Java applications.

Using numerous sample programs (included on the CD-ROM), this book provides you with cutting-edge techniques for building sophisticated applications using the latest Java technologies. Concentrating on topics of vital interest to programmers who need to write mission-critical business applications, the authors detail and explain the following:

• Advanced I/O and networking
• Concurrent programming with threads
• JavaBeans
• Advanced security techniques
• Java foundation classes
• Java Media
• JavaServer environment
• Java database connectivity
• Java Network Computers and JavaOS

On the CD-ROM you'll find:

• Source code you can use to build your own applications
• Java documentation
• The Java City multimedia demo
• Try-and-Buy versions of Java Studio and Java WorkShop.

About this title

Review

For a roadmap to the future of Java, look to Advanced Techniques for Java Developers; it provides a wide-ranging view of Java used for enterprise development, including network computing. Written for both Information Services (IS) managers and developers alike, this title provides a distinctively Sun-centric view of the potentially bright future of Java.

The book opens with a tour of some of the features of the new Java 2 platform, including its Swing classes. It also provides background on the Java 2-D and Java 3-D APIs for multimedia. (Though the Java 3-D API is still under construction, the authors create a virtual world using a Moving Pictures Experts Group [MPEG] viewer instead.)

For developers, one of the best sections here shows how easy it is to load URLs using Java's networking classes. For IS managers, the authors use their mainframe expertise to show that Java is ready for the enterprise with key technologies such as Remote Invocation Method (RMI), Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) and CORBA, Java Database Connection (JDBC), servlets, and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs). Short examples are used to show off many of these APIs, but it's the background material on multitiered architectures and enterprise computing that is the strongest here. The authors do a fine job of comparing the advantages of each approach for using Java in distributed systems.

Later the book presents the new policy-based security mechanism in Java 2 and offers some worthwhile material on using advanced features of Java threads. Final sections argue for the superiority of network computers, including lowered total cost of ownership. Spinning a distinctively pro-Java future, this guide to today's latest Sun technologies will serve any IS manager or developer with an interest in Java in the enterprise. --Richard Dragan

From the Publisher

Written by a Java guru from Sun, this official Java-SIG book teaches experienced Java programmers the ins and outs of advanced techniques such as advance networking and remote access, distributed object programming, parallel programming, and advanced security techniques. CD-ROM includes sourcecode and useful software that readers can download to incorporate and build their own programs.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0471182087
• ISBN 13: 9780471182085
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 426