Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition (2nd Edition)

Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days continues to be one of the most popular, best-selling Java tutorials on the market. It has been acclaimed for its clear and personable writing, for its extensive use of examples, and for its logical and complete organization. The Professional Reference Edition of the book includes an extra seven chapters covering advanced topics like object serialization, remote method invocation, accessibility, security, JavaBeans, JDBC, and advanced data structures – as well as a 200-page reference section detailing the most commonly used aspects of the Java language. This edition of the book has been updated and revised to cover version 1.3 of the Java 2 Standard Edition SDK, and the book's CD-ROM includes a fully functional Java compiler, as well as the book¿s source code and a collection of third-party Java development tools and utilities.

Rodgers Caldenhead is a writer and Web publisher who has written 10 books on Internet-related topics, including Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours and Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft FrontPage 2000 in 24 Hours, but not Sams Teach Yourself to Tell Time in 10 Minutes. He maintains this book's official Web site at java21pro/.

Laura Lemay is a technical writer and author. After spending six years writing software documentation for various computer companies in Silicon Valley, she decided that writing books would be much more fun. In her spare time, she collects computers, email addresses, interesting hair colors, and non-running motorcycles. She is also the perpetrator of Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week and Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days.