Special Edition Using Java 2, Standard Edition

by Cavaness, Chuck; Keeton, Brian; Friesen, Jeff; Weber, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780789724687
• ISBN10: 0789724685
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Que

Summary

Special Edition Using Java 2 Standard Edition specifically covers only the Standard Edition of version 1.3 of the Java Software Development Kit (SDK). It begins with a series of quick refreshers for Object-oriented programming and Java fundamentals, including applet programming and threads, to ensure that readers are up to speed. The book then moves to intermediate Java features including user interface design with Java Foundation Classes (JFC) and Abstract Windows Toolkit (AWT), data structures and Java utilities, containers and layout managers, and creating images. Later chapters cover advanced topics including Internationalization & creating JAR archive files. Useful appendices offer further Java resources & SDK tool information. Throughout the book, the authors focus on Java 2 Standard Edition SDK version 1.3 changes, including the newest "HotSpot" compiler, which offers increased performance, faster start-up and smaller memory usage, among other improvements.

Author Biography

Chuck Cavaness is a senior Java Architect for NetVendor, a B2B supplier-enablement Internet company. He specializes in full J2EE architecture design and construction for B2C and B2B Internet solutions. His experiences include development of several multithreaded CORBA and EJB Internet solutions, including the development of a couple of full Object-to-Relational frameworks using JDBC. He is certified in several Java Technologies and is involved heavily in developing Internet Auction components for the Internet. Geoff Friesen is heavily involved with Java technology. He has written numerous Java-based articles for JavaWorld--ranging from internationalization to Java Plug-In to the future of Java--and an introductory Java book called Java 2 by Example. Furthermore, he's taught university-level and college-level introductory Java courses. Geoff is currently serving as the moderator to the Java Beginner discussion group at ITworld.com. Brian Keeton is a software engineer at NetVendor, where he develops server-side Java components to support B2B trading using EJB. He is a Sun Certified Java programmer and developer with 10 years of professional software development experience. He spent five years developing object-oriented application in C++ for the defense industry before transitioning to Java business application development using Swing, CORBA, and EJB.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(7)
I The Java Language
Object-Oriented Programming	7	(20)
HelloWorld: Your First Java Program	27	(16)
Data Types and Other Tokens	43	(26)
Methods and Exceptions	69	(26)
Using Expressions	95	(16)
Control Flow	111	(20)
Classes	131	(42)
Using Strings and Text	173	(24)
Interfaces	197	(20)
Data Structures and Java Utilities	217	(42)
Threads	259	(38)
II User Interface
Introduction to Java Foundation Classes	297	(38)
Beginning AWT	335	(84)
Building a GUI: AWT Style	419	(84)
And Then There Was Swing	503	(16)
Building a GUI: Swing Style	519	(80)
Accessibility	599	(34)
Java 2D	633	(70)
Drag and Drop	703	(38)
Java Media Framework	741	(34)
III I/O
Streams, Files, and Serialization	775	(26)
Object Serialization	801	(18)
Communications and Networking	819	(46)
Using Internationalization	865	(26)
JAR Files	891	(16)
IV Databases
JDBC 2.0 Fundamentals	907	(44)
Advanced JDBC 2.0	951	(26)
V Component Development
Reflection	977	(24)
JavaBeans	1001	(60)
Appendixes
A Installing the SDK and Getting Started	1027	(10)
B SDK Tools	1037	(8)
C SDK 1.3 Performance Improvements	1045	(10)
D Java Resources	1055	(6)
Index	1061