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PDF Ebook Core Java™ 2: Volume I–Fundamentals

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In late 1995, the Java programming language burst onto the Internet scene and gained instant celebrity status. The promise of Java is that it will become the universal glue that connects users with information, whether that information comes from Web servers, databases, information providers, and 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 then, Sun Microsystems has released four major revisions of the Java Software Development Kit. Version 1.02, released in 1996, supported database connectivity and distributed objects. Version 1.1, released in 1997, added a robust event model, internationalization, and the Java Beans component model. Version 1.2, released at the end of 1998, has numerous enhancements, but one major improvement stands out: the “Swing” user interface toolkit that finally allows programmers to write truly portable GUI applications. Version 1.3, released in the spring of 2000, delivered many incremental improvements.

The book you have in your hand is the first volume of the fifth edition of the Core Java book. Each time, 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.

As with the previous editions of this book, we still 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 in Windows, Unix, or the Macintosh.)

Contents
List of Tables, Code Examples and Figures

    Tables
    Code Examples
    Figures

Preface

    To the Reader
    About This Book
    Conventions
    CD-ROM

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Java

    Java as a Programming Tool
    Advantages of Java
    The Java “White Paper” Buzzwords
    Java and the Internet
    A Short History of Java
    Common Misconceptions About Java

Chapter 2. The Java Programming Environment

    Installing the Java Software Development Kit
    Development Environments
    Using the Command Line Tools
    Using an Integrated Development Environment
    Compiling and Running Programs from a Text Editor
    Graphical Applications
    Applets

Chapter 3. Fundamental Programming Structures in Java

    A Simple Java Program
    Comments
    Data Types
    Variables
    Assignments and Initializations
    Operators
    Strings
    Control Flow
    Big Numbers
    Arrays

Chapter 4. Objects and Classes

    Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
    Using Existing Classes
    Building Your Own Classes
    Static Fields and Methods
    Method Parameters
    Object Construction
    Packages
    Documentation Comments
    Class Design Hints

Chapter 5. Inheritance

    Extending Classes
    Object:
    The Cosmic Superclass
    The
    Class
    Class
    Reflection
    Design Hints for Inheritance

Chapter 6. Interfaces and Inner Classes

    Interfaces
    Object Cloning
    Inner Classes
    Proxies

Chapter 7. Graphics Programming

    Introduction to Swing
    Creating a Frame
    Frame Positioning
    Displaying Information in a Panel
    2D Shapes
    Colors
    Text and Fonts
    Images

Chapter 8. Event Handling

    Basics of Event Handling
    The AWT Event Hierarchy
    Semantic and Low-Level Events in the AWT
    Low-Level Event Types
    Actions
    Multicasting
    The Event Queue

Chapter 9. User Interface Components with Swing

    The Model-View-Controller Design Pattern
    An Introduction to Layout Management
    Text Input
    Making Choices
    Menus
    Sophisticated Layout Management
    Dialog Boxes

Chapter 10. Applets

    Applet Basics
    The Applet HTML Tags and Attributes
    Multimedia
    The Applet Context
    JAR Files

Chapter 11. Exceptions and Debugging

    Dealing with Errors
    Catching Exceptions
    Some Tips on Using Exceptions
    Debugging Techniques
    Using a Debugger

Chapter 12. Streams and Files

    Streams
    The Complete Stream Zoo
    ZIP File Streams
    Putting Streams to Use
    Object Streams
    File Management

Appendix Java Keywords

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