Core Java 2 : Fundamentals

by Horstmann, Cay S.; Cornell, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780130819338
• ISBN10: 0130819336
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference

Summary

Ask any experienced Java developer: Core Java books deliver the real-world guidance and industrial-strength code you need to build sophisticated Java projects. That's why they've been huge best-sellers for three straight years! Now, there's a brand-new edition, reflecting Sun's powerful JDK 1.2 enhancements. Better than ever, Core Java 1.2, Volume 1: Fundamentals contains extensive new coverage of graphics programming, Swing lightweight user interface components, and more. There's also extensive new coverage of the Java 1.2 event model and debugging plus superb help with Java Streams-based network programming.

Table of Contents

Preface	xx	(4)
To the Reader	xx	(2)
About This Book	xxii	(2)
Conventions	xxiv	(1)
CD-ROM	xxv
Acknowledgments	xxiv
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Java	1	(20)
Java as a Programming Tool	2	(1)
Advantages of Java	3	(1)
The Java "White Paper" Buzzwords	4	(7)
Simple	5	(1)
Object Oriented	6	(1)
Distributed	6	(1)
Robust	7	(1)
Secure	7	(2)
Architecture Neutral	9	(1)
Portable	9	(1)
Interpreted	10	(1)
High Performance	10	(1)
Multithreaded	11	(1)
Dynamic	11	(1)
Java and the Internet	11	(3)
Applets at Work	12	(2)
A Short History of Java	14	(2)
Common Misconceptions about Java	16	(5)
Chapter 2 The Java Programming Environment	21	(22)
Installing the Java Compiler and Tools	21	(3)
Development Environments for Windows Users	22	(1)
Adding Core Java Files to an Integrated Development Environment	23	(1)
Navigating the Java Directories	24	(1)
Windows 95/98/NT as a Programming Environment	25	(6)
Long File Names	25	(2)
Multiple Windows	27	(1)
Keyboard Shortcuts	28	(1)
More on DOS Shells	29	(1)
The EDIT Program	30	(1)
Compiling and Running Java Programs	31	(1)
Using TextPad	32	(2)
Compiling and Running Programs	32	(1)
Locating Compilation Errors	32	(2)
Graphical Applications	34	(2)
Applets	36	(7)
Chapter 3 Fundamental Programming Structures in Java	43	(62)
A Simple Java Program	44	(3)
Comments	47	(1)
Data Types	48	(4)
Integers	48	(2)
Floating-Point	50	(1)
The Character Type (char)	50	(2)
The Boolean Type	52	(1)
Variables	52	(1)
Assignments and Initializations	53	(3)
Conversions Between Numeric Types	54	(1)
Constants	55	(1)
Operators	56	(3)
Exponentiation	56	(1)
Increment and Decrement Operators	56	(1)
Relational and Boolean Operators	57	(1)
Bitwise Operators	58	(1)
Parentheses and Operator Hierarchy	59	(1)
Strings	59	(15)
Concatenation	60	(1)
Substrings	60	(1)
String Editing	61	(1)
Testing Strings for Equality	62	(3)
Reading Input	65	(2)
Formatting Output	67	(6)
A Mortgage Calendar	73	(1)
Control Flow	74	(12)
Block Scope	74	(1)
Conditional Statements	75	(3)
Indeterminate Loops	78	(3)
Determinate Loops	81	(2)
Multiple Selections-The switch Statement	83	(1)
Labeled Breaks	84	(2)
Class Methods (User-Defined Functions)	86	(6)
Class Variables	90	(1)
Recursion	90	(2)
Arrays	92	(13)
Copying Arrays	93	(2)
Arrays as Arguments	95	(1)
Arrays as Return Values	96	(2)
Multidimensional Arrays	98	(7)
Chapter 4 Objects and Classes	105	(58)
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming	106	(8)
The Vocabulary of OOP	108	(1)
Objects	109	(1)
Relationships between Classes	110	(2)
Contrasting OOP with Traditional Procedural Programming Techniques	112	(2)
Using Existing Classes	114	(14)
Object Variables	114	(3)
The GregorianCalendar Class of the Java Library	117	(4)
Mutator and Accessor Methods	121	(1)
Using our Day Class	122	(4)
Objects as Functional Arguments	126	(2)
Starting to Build Your Own Classes	128	(25)
An Employee Class	129	(2)
Analyzing the Employee Class	131	(1)
First Steps with Constructors	132	(2)
The Methods of the Employee Class	134	(4)
Method Access to Private Data	138	(1)
Private Methods	138	(1)
More on Object Construction	139	(5)
Static Methods and Fields	144	(5)
A CardDeck Class	149	(4)
Packages	153	(6)
Using Packages	154	(5)
Class Design Hints	159	(4)
Chapter 5 Inheritance	163	(62)
First Steps with Inheritance	164	(9)
Inheritance Hierarchies	169	(1)
Working with Subclasses	170	(1)
Objects Know How to Do Their Work: Polymorphism	170	(2)
Preventing Inheritance: Final Classes and Methods	172	(1)
Casting	173	(3)
Abstract Classes	176	(6)
Protecting Access	182	(1)
Object: The Cosmic Superclass	182	(22)
Vectors	186	(9)
Object Wrappers	195	(5)
Big Numbers	200	(1)
Reading a Page in the HTML Documents	201	(3)
The Class Class (Run-Time Type Identification)	204	(2)
Reflection	206	(16)
Design Hints for Inheritance	222	(3)
Chapter 6 Interfaces and Inner Classes	225	(34)
Interfaces	226	(12)
Using an Abstract Superclass	226	(3)
Using an Interface	229	(3)
Properties of Interfaces	232	(1)
The Cloneable Interface	233	(3)
Interfaces and Callbacks	236	(2)
Inner Classes	238	(21)
A Property Interface	240	(11)
Local Classes That Access Local Variables	251	(4)
Static Inner Classes	255	(4)
Chapter 7 Graphics Programming	259	(56)
Introduction	260	(4)
Creating a Closeable Frame	264	(3)
Terminating Graphics Programs	267	(3)
Frame Layout	270	(6)
Displaying Information in a Frame	276	(2)
Graphics Objects and the paintComponent method	278	(3)
Text and Fonts	281	(11)
Colors	292	(2)
Drawing Shapes from Lines	294	(4)
Drawing Rectangles and Ovals	298	(2)
Filling Shapes	300	(5)
Paint Mode	305	(2)
Images	307	(8)
Chapter 8 Event Handling	315	(58)
Basics of Event Handling	316	(14)
Example: Which Button Was Clicked?	318	(9)
Example: Capturing Window Events	327	(1)
Adapter Classes	328	(2)
The AWT Event Hierarchy	330	(2)
Semantic and Low-Level Events in the AWT	332	(1)
Event Handling Summary	333	(3)
Individual Events	336	(16)
Focus Events	336	(2)
Window Events	338	(1)
Keyboard Events	338	(6)
Mouse Events	344	(8)
Separating GUI and Application Code	352	(8)
Multicasting	360	(2)
Advanced Event Handling	362	(11)
Consumer Events	363	(1)
The Event Queue	363	(4)
Adding Custom Events	367	(6)
Chapter 9 User Interface Components With Swing	373	(158)
The Model-View-Controller Design Pattern	374	(6)
A Model-View-Controller Analysis of Swing Buttons	379	(1)
An Introduction to Layout Management	380	(7)
Border Layout	383	(1)
Panels	384	(3)
Text Input	387	(21)
Text Fields	387	(6)
Input Validation	393	(6)
Password Fields	399	(5)
Labels and Labeling Components	404	(2)
Selecting Text	406	(1)
Editing Text	406	(2)
Making Choices	408	(33)
Check Boxes	408	(3)
Radio Buttons	411	(4)
Borders	415	(5)
Lists	420	(18)
Combo Boxes	438	(3)
Scroll Bars	441	(21)
Scroll Panes	446	(10)
Scrolling a Window	456	(6)
Sophisticated Layout Management	462	(25)
Grid Layout	465	(3)
Box Layout	468	(6)
Grid Bag Layout	474	(2)
The gridx, gridy, gridwidth, and gridheight Parameters	476	(1)
Weight Fields	476	(1)
The fill and anchor Parameters	476	(1)
Padding	477	(1)
An Alternative Method to Specify the gridx, gridy, gridwidth, and gridheight Parameters	477	(3)
Using No Layout Manager	480	(1)
Custom Layout Managers	481	(4)
Traversal Order	485	(2)
Menus	487	(18)
Building Menus	488	(3)
Reacting to Menu Events	491	(1)
Icons in Menu Items	492	(2)
Check Box and Radio Button Menu Items	494	(1)
Pop-up Menus	495	(2)
Keyboard Mnemonics and Accelerators	497	(2)
Enabling and Disabling Menu Items	499	(6)
Dialog Boxes	505	(26)
Option Dialogs	505	(11)
Creating Dialogs	516	(4)
Data Exchange	520	(4)
File Dialogs	524	(7)
Chapter 10 Applets	531	(52)
Applet Basics	532	(3)
A Simple Applet	535	(3)
Testing Applets	538	(3)
Security Basics	541	(2)
Converting Applications to Applets	543	(3)
Life Cycle of an Applet	546	(1)
The Applet HTML Tags and Attributes	547	(13)
Applet Attributes for Positioning	549	(1)
Applet Attributes for Code	550	(2)
Applet Attributes for Java-Challenged Viewers	552	(1)
The Object Tag	553	(1)
Java Plug-In Tags	553	(2)
Passing Information to Applets	555	(5)
Pop-up Windows in Applets	560	(2)
Multimedia	562	(2)
URLs	562	(1)
Obtaining Multimedia Files	563	(1)
The Applet Context	564	(12)
Inter-Applet Communication	565	(1)
Displaying Items in the Browser	565	(2)
A Bookmark Applet	567	(4)
JAR Files	571	(1)
Resources	572	(4)
It's an Applet. It's an Application. It's Both!	576	(7)
Chapter 11 Exceptions and Debugging	583	(40)
Dealing With Errors	584	(8)
The Classification of Exceptions	585	(2)
Advertising the Exceptions That a Method Throws	587	(3)
How to Throw and Exception	590	(1)
Creating Exception Classes	591	(1)
Catching Exceptions	592	(8)
Catching Multiple Exceptions	594	(2)
The finally Clause	596	(1)
A Final Look at Java Error-and Exception-Handling	597	(3)
Some Tips on Using Exceptions	600	(3)
Debugging Techniques	603	(13)
Useful Tricks for Debugging	603	(3)
Assertions	606	(3)
Trapping AWT Events	609	(4)
Displaying Debug Messages in Graphics Programs	613	(3)
Using the JDB Debugger	616	(7)
Chapter 12 Streams and Files	623	(74)
Streams	623	(4)
Reading and Writing Bytes	624	(3)
The Complete Stream Zoo	627	(18)
Layering Stream Files	629	(4)
Data Streams	633	(4)
Random-Access File Streams	637	(8)
ZIP File Streams	645	(7)
Putting Streams to Use	652	(12)
Writing Delimited Output	653	(1)
String Tokenizers and Delimited Text	653	(2)
Reading Delimited Input	655	(9)
Random-Access Streams
Object Streams	664	(25)
Storing Objects of Variable Type	665	(4)
Object Serialization File Format	669	(4)
The Problem of Saving Object References	673	(5)
Output Format for Object References	678	(3)
Security	681	(4)
Versioning	685	(4)
File Management	689	(8)
Appendix I	697	(2)
Java Keywords	697	(2)
Appendix II	699	(6)
The javadoc Utility	699	(6)
How to Insert Comments	699	(1)
General Comments	700	(1)
Class and Interface Comments	701	(1)
Method Comments	702	(1)
Serialization Comments	702	(1)
Package and Overview Comments	703	(1)
How to Extract Comments	703	(2)
Appendix III	705	(8)
Installing the CD-ROM	705	(8)
Contents of the CD-ROM	705	(1)
Installation Directions	705	(1)
Install the JDK	705	(1)
Install Trial Software	706	(1)
Install the Core Java Example Files	707	(2)
Testing the Installation	709	(1)
Testing the JDK	709	(1)
Testing the Core Java Utility Package	709	(1)
Testing Swing Set Support	709	(1)
Troubleshooting	710	(1)
PATH and CLASSPATH	710	(1)
Memory Problems	710	(1)
Case Sensitivity	710	(1)
Browsers	710	(1)
About Other Platforms	711	(1)
Updates and Bug Fixes	711	(2)
Index	713