Java The Complete Reference, 8th Edition

by Schildt, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780071606301
• ISBN10: 0071606300
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-13
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

The Definitive Guide for Java ProgrammersIn this international bestseller, top-selling programming author Herbert Schildt shows you everything you need to develop, compile, debug, and run Java programs. The book has been updated to cover the latest version of the world's number-one programming language. Java 7: The Complete Reference, Eighth Edition covers all of the Java 7 features, including closures, superpackages, reified generic types, the enhanced switch statement, chained method invocations, extension methods, the enhanced catch statement, and enum values. The book also includes details on the Swing Application Framework and a chapter on language-level XML support.

Author Biography

Herb Schildt is the worldAnd#39;s leading programming author, whose books have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. His acclaimed books include C++: The Complete Reference, C#: The Complete Reference, and many others.

Table of Contents

The Java Language

The History and Evolution of Java

An Overview of Java

Data Types, Variables, and Arrays

Operators

Control Statements

Introducing Classes

A Closer Look at Methods and Classes

Inheritance

Packages and Interfaces

Exception Handling

Multithreaded Programming

Enumerations, Autoboxing, and Annotations

I/O, Applets, and Other Topics

Generics

The Java Library

String Handling

Exploring java.lang

java.util

The Collections Framework

java.util

More Utility Classes

Input/Output: Exploring java.io

Networking

The Applet Class

Event Handling

Introducing the AWT: Working with Windows, Graphics, and Text

Using AWT Controls, Layout Managers, and Menus

Images

The Concurrency Utilities

NIO, Regular Expressions, and Other Packages

Software Development Using Java

Java Beans

Introducing Swing

Exploring Swing

Servlets

Applying Java

Financial Applets and Servlets

Creating a Download Manager

Using Java's Documentation Comments

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