Java All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition

Book VIII

Files and Databases

You can find an interesting programming challenge that requires use of many of the programming techniques covered in this minibook at www.dummies.com/extras/javaaio. The challenge for this book is to enhance the Swing version of the Tic-Tac-Toe program created earlier so that it allows the player to save an in-progress game to a disk file and later restore a saved game.

Contents at a Glance

Chapter 1: Working with Files

Chapter 2: Working with File Streams

Chapter 3: Database for $100, Please

Chapter 4: Using JDBC to Connect to a Database

Chapter 5: Working with XML