Core Java™ 2, Volume I--Fundamentals

by Horstmann, Cay S.; Cornell, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780131482029
• ISBN10: 0131482025
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Timely new edition of the best-selling introductory book to Java for experienced programmers, completely updated for J2SE 1.5.

Author Biography

Gary Cornell has been a visiting scientist at IBM Watson Labs, as well as a professor at the University of Connecticut.

Table of Contents

List of Code Examples	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
To the Reader	p. xv
About This Book	p. xvii
Conventions	p. xviii
Sample Code	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
An Introduction to Java	p. 1
Java as a Programming Platform	p. 1
The Java "White Paper" Buzzwords	p. 2
Java and the Internet	p. 7
A Short History of Java	p. 8
Common Misconceptions About Java	p. 11
The Java Programming Environment	p. 15
Installing the Java Development Kit	p. 15
Choosing a Development Environment	p. 19
Using the Command-Line Tools	p. 20
Using an Integrated Development Environment	p. 22
Compiling and Running Programs from a Text Editor	p. 25
Running a Graphical Application	p. 27
Building and Running Applets	p. 30
Fundamental Programming Structures in Java	p. 35
A Simple Java Program	p. 35
Comments	p. 38
Data Types	p. 39
Variables	p. 42
Operators	p. 45
Strings	p. 51
Input and Output	p. 58
Control Flow	p. 65
Big Numbers	p. 79
Arrays	p. 81
Objects and Classes	p. 93
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming	p. 93
Using Predefined Classes	p. 99
Defining Your Own Classes	p. 108
Static Fields and Methods	p. 117
Method Parameters	p. 122
Object Construction	p. 127
Packages	p. 135
Documentation Comments	p. 144
Class Design Hints	p. 148
Inheritance	p. 151
Classes, Superclasses, and Subclasses	p. 151
Object: The Cosmic Superclass	p. 169
Generic Array Lists	p. 179
Object Wrappers and Autoboxing	p. 186
Reflection	p. 189
Enumeration Classes	p. 207
Design Hints for Inheritance	p. 209
Interfaces and Inner Classes	p. 211
Interfaces	p. 211
Object Cloning	p. 218
Interfaces and Callbacks	p. 223
Inner Classes	p. 226
Proxies	p. 239
Graphics Programming	p. 245
Introducing Swing	p. 245
Creating a Frame	p. 249
Positioning a Frame	p. 251
Displaying Information in a Panel	p. 256
Working with 2D Shapes	p. 260
Using Color	p. 267
Using Special Fonts for Text	p. 272
Doing More with Images	p. 278
Event Handling	p. 285
Basics of Event Handling	p. 285
The AWT Event Hierarchy	p. 302
Semantic and Low-Level Events in the AWT	p. 304
Low-Level Event Types	p. 307
Actions	p. 323
Multicasting	p. 330
Implementing Event Sources	p. 333
User Interface Components with Swing	p. 339
The Model-View-Controller Design Pattern	p. 339
Introduction to Layout Management	p. 345
Text Input	p. 354
Choice Components	p. 380
Menus	p. 406
Sophisticated Layout Management	p. 424
Dialog Boxes	p. 455
Deploying Applets and Applications	p. 493
Applet Basics	p. 493
The Applet HTML Tags and Attributes	p. 504
Multimedia	p. 513
The Applet Context	p. 515
JAR Files	p. 525
Application Packaging	p. 526
Java Web Start	p. 532
Storage of Application Preferences	p. 544
Exceptions and Debugging	p. 557
Dealing with Errors	p. 558
Catching Exceptions	p. 564
Tips for Using Exceptions	p. 576
Logging	p. 579
Using Assertions	p. 594
Debugging Techniques	p. 597
Using a Debugger	p. 611
Streams and Files	p. 619
Streams	p. 619
The Complete Stream Zoo	p. 622
ZIP File Streams	p. 643
Use of Streams	p. 650
Object Streams	p. 662
File Management	p. 684
New I/O	p. 689
Regular Expressions	p. 698
Generic Programming	p. 707
Why Generic Programming?	p. 707
Definition of a Simple Generic Class	p. 709
Generic Methods	p. 711
Bounds for Type Variables	p. 711
Generic Code and the Virtual Machine	p. 713
Restrictions and Limitations	p. 717
Inheritance Rules for Generic Types	p. 720
Wildcard Types	p. 721
Reflection and Generics	p. 729
Java Keywords	p. 735
Retrofitting JDK 5.0 Code	p. 737
Enhanced for Loop	p. 737
Generic Array Lists	p. 737
Autoboxing	p. 737
Variable Parameter Lists	p. 738
Covariant Return Types	p. 738
Static Import	p. 738
Console Input	p. 738
Formatted Output	p. 739
Content Pane Delegation	p. 739
Unicode Code Points	p. 739
Building Strings	p. 739
Index	p. 741
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Excerpts

To the Reader In late 1995, the Java programming language burst onto the Internet scene and gained instant celebrity status. The promise of Java technology was that it would become theuniversal gluethat connects users with information, whether that information comes from web servers, databases, information providers, or any other imaginable source. Indeed, Java is in a unique position to fulfill this promise. It is an extremely solidly engineered language that has gained acceptance by all major vendors, except for Microsoft. Its built-in security and safety features are reassuring both to programmers and to the users of Java programs. Java even has built-in support that makes advanced programming tasks, such as network programming, database connectivity, and multithreading, straightforward. Since 1995, Sun Microsystems has released six major revisions of the Java Development Kit. Over the course of the last nine years, the Application Programming Interface (API) has grown from about 200 to over 3,000 classes. The API now spans such diverse areas as user interface construction, database management, internationalization, security, and XML processing. JDK 5.0, released in 2004, is the most impressive update of the Java language since the original Java release. The book you have in your hand is the first volume of the seventh edition of theCore Java 2book. With the publishing of each edition, the book followed the release of the Java Development Kit as quickly as possible, and each time, we rewrote the book to take advantage of the newest Java features. In this edition, we are enthusiastic users of generic collections, the enhanced for loop, and other exciting features of JDK 5.0. As with the previous editions of this book, westill target serious programmers who want to put Java to work on real projects.We still guarantee no nervous text or dancing tooth-shaped characters. We think of you, our reader, as a programmer with a solid background in a programming language.But you do not need to know C++ or object-oriented programming.Based on the responses we have received to the earlier editions of this book, we remain confident that experienced Visual Basic, C, or COBOL programmers will have no trouble with this book. (You don't even need any experience in building graphical user interfaces for Windows, UNIX, or the Macintosh.) What we do is assume you want to: Write real code to solve real problems and Don't like books filled with toy examples (such as toasters, fruits, or zoo animals) In this book you will find lots of sample code that demonstrates almost every language and library feature that we discuss. We kept the sample programs purposefully simple to focus on the major points, but, for the most part, they aren't fake and they don't cut corners. They should make good starting points for your own code. We assume you are willing, even eager, to learn about all the advanced features that Java puts at your disposal. For example, we give you a detailed treatment of: Object-oriented programming Reflection and proxies Interfaces and inner classes The event listener model Graphical user interface design with the Swing UI toolkit Exception handling Stream input/output and object serialization Generic programming With the explosive growth of the Java class library, a one-volume treatment of all the features of Java that serious programmers need to know is no longer possible. Hence, we decided to break the book up into two volumes. The first volume, which you hold in your hands, concentrates on the fundamental concepts of the Java language, along with the basics of user-interface programming. The second volume goes further into the enterprise features and advanced user-interface programming. It includes detai