Essential Java

For HTML authors and Web developers and programmers, an introduction to the programming languages put out by Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications, JavaScript and the more advanced Java. Explains the statements, standard objects, properties, methods, event programming, the abstract window toolkit, threads, and streams. Includes a CD-ROM contains a development kit for Windows 95, Windows NT, and Solaris. No bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Essential Java is a guide to the Java-related technologies developed by Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications Corporation. Java, JavaScript and Netscape 2.0 are among the newest and most exciting technologies to hit the Web, bringing executable content to an otherwise 'static' universe of Web pages. At long last, your HTML documents can become fully-fledged applications and with Jason Manger's Essential Java you can learn how to incorporate interactivity, sound animation - and more - into your Web pages. Essential Java is written for HTML authors, Web-developers and novice programmers who want to get to grips with Java and JavaScript. The book begins with a comprehensive introduction to Netscape's JavaScript, an ideal first language and starting point for HTML authors wishing to make the transisiton to real Web programming. Moving on to the larger and more powerful Java language, you will discover step by step, how to develop Java 'applets; and applications. A companion CD includes the Java Development Kit (JDK) for Windows 95, Windows NT and Solaris.