The Java? Class Libraries, Volume 1: Supplement for the Java? 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v1.2

Best-selling authors Patrick Chan, Rosanna Lee, and Doug Kramer provide a timely 1.2 companion book to The Java Class Libraries, Second Edition, Volume 1. Used together, these books provide complete documentation for the Volume 1 set of packages. Important new packages have been added, including: java.lang.reflect, and java.util.jar. The Supplement includes complete documentation for all packages, classes, and members that are new or have been changed. Material that has not been changed from Java 1.1 and Java 1.2 is not covered in the supplement. However, all class descriptions in the supplement include member summaries that indicate which book contains which member desriptions. Moreover, the supplement features an integrated index that covers both books.

This definitive reference to the Java 1.2 class libraries is an essential resource for both novice and experienced Java programmers. The information is presented in an easy-to-use, dictionary-like format. The packages covered in this book are: java.io, java.lang, java.lang.reflect, java.math, java.text, java.util, java.util.jar, and java.util.zip.

The extensive class and member descriptions contain details crucial for developing robust and professional applets and applications. Each description is supplemented by an example which demonstrates the class or member in a relevant context.

Each class description includes:

a class hierarchy diagram showing its connection to related classes detailed overview describing its purpose and key concepts a convenient member summary that briefly describes each member and arranges the members into related groups an example demonstrating the class in a "real-world" context comprehensive descriptions and an example for each member

Patrick Chan is an original member of the team that created the Java language. He is also a coauthor of the Java Class Libraries books and is the chief architect at Composite Software.

Rosanna Lee is a former Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc.,where she led the design and development of the JNDI technology and theX/Open Federated Naming (XFN). She is also coauthor of the Java Class Libraries books and posters in the Java Series.

Doug Kramer is a lead writer for the Java Development Kit and Senior Technical Writer at JavaSoft, Sun Microsystems, Inc. He previously worked at Kaleida Labs and Macromind, documenting multimedia technology and designing graphical user interfaces.