Java Cookbook, 3rd Edition

Table of contents

1. Dedication
2. Preface
   1. Preface to the Third Edition
   2. Preface to Previous Editions
   3. Who This Book Is For
   4. What’s in This Book?
   5. Platform Notes
   6. Java Books
   7. Conventions Used in This Book
   8. Safari® Books Online
   9. Comments and Questions
   10. Acknowledgments
3. 1. Getting Started: Compiling, Running, and Debugging
   1. Introduction
   2. Compiling and Running Java: JDK
   3. Editing and Compiling with a Syntax-Highlighting Editor
   4. Compiling, Running, and Testing with an IDE
   5. Using CLASSPATH Effectively
   6. Downloading and Using the Code Examples
   7. Automating Compilation with Apache Ant
   8. Automating Dependencies, Compilation, Testing, and Deployment with Apache Maven
   9. Automating Dependencies, Compilation, Testing, and Deployment with Gradle
   10. Dealing with Deprecation Warnings
   11. Conditional Debugging Without #ifdef
   12. Maintaining Program Correctness with Assertions
   13. Debugging with JDB
   14. Avoiding the Need for Debuggers with Unit Testing
   15. Maintaining Your Code with Continuous Integration
   16. Getting Readable Tracebacks
   17. Finding More Java Source Code: Programs, Frameworks, Libraries
4. 2. Interacting with the Environment
   1. Introduction
   2. Getting Environment Variables
   3. Getting Information from System Properties
   4. Learning About the Current JDK Release
   5. Dealing with Operating System–Dependent Variations
   6. Using Extensions or Other Packaged APIs
   7. Parsing Command-Line Arguments
5. 3. Strings and Things
   1. Introduction
   2. Taking Strings Apart with Substrings
   3. Breaking Strings Into Words
   4. Putting Strings Together with StringBuilder
   5. Processing a String One Character at a Time
   6. Aligning Strings
   7. Converting Between Unicode Characters and Strings
   8. Reversing a String by Word or by Character
   9. Expanding and Compressing Tabs
   10. Controlling Case
   11. Indenting Text Documents
   12. Entering Nonprintable Characters
   13. Trimming Blanks from the End of a String
   14. Parsing Comma-Separated Data
   15. Program: A Simple Text Formatter
   16. Program: Soundex Name Comparisons
6. 4. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
   1. Introduction
   2. Regular Expression Syntax
   3. Using regexes in Java: Test for a Pattern
   4. Finding the Matching Text
   5. Replacing the Matched Text
   6. Printing All Occurrences of a Pattern
   7. Printing Lines Containing a Pattern
   8. Controlling Case in Regular Expressions
   9. Matching “Accented” or Composite Characters
   10. Matching Newlines in Text
   11. Program: Apache Logfile Parsing
   12. Program: Data Mining
   13. Program: Full Grep
7. 5. Numbers
   1. Introduction
   2. Checking Whether a String Is a Valid Number
   3. Storing a Larger Number in a Smaller Number
   4. Converting Numbers to Objects and Vice Versa
   5. Taking a Fraction of an Integer Without Using Floating Point
   6. Ensuring the Accuracy of Floating-Point Numbers
   7. Comparing Floating-Point Numbers
   8. Rounding Floating-Point Numbers
   9. Formatting Numbers
   10. Converting Between Binary, Octal, Decimal, and Hexadecimal
   11. Operating on a Series of Integers
   12. Working with Roman Numerals
   13. Formatting with Correct Plurals
   14. Generating Random Numbers
   15. Calculating Trigonometric Functions
   16. Taking Logarithms
   17. Multiplying Matrices
   18. Using Complex Numbers
   19. Handling Very Large Numbers
   20. Program: TempConverter
   21. Program: Number Palindromes
8. 6. Dates and Times—New API
   1. Introduction
   2. Finding Today’s Date
   3. Formatting Dates and Times
   4. Converting Among Dates/Times, YMDHMS, and Epoch Seconds
   5. Parsing Strings into Dates
   6. Difference Between Two Dates
   7. Adding to or Subtracting from a Date or Calendar
   8. Interfacing with Legacy Date and Calendar Classes
9. 7. Structuring Data with Java
   1. Introduction
   2. Using Arrays for Data Structuring
   3. Resizing an Array
   4. The Collections Framework
   5. Like an Array, but More Dynamic
   6. Using Generic Collections
   7. Avoid Casting by Using Generics
   8. How Shall I Iterate Thee? Let Me Enumerate the Ways
   9. Eschewing Duplicates with a Set
   10. Using Iterators or Enumerations for Data-Independent Access
   11. Structuring Data in a Linked List
   12. Mapping with Hashtable and HashMap
   13. Storing Strings in Properties and Preferences
   14. Sorting a Collection
   15. Avoiding the Urge to Sort
   16. Finding an Object in a Collection
   17. Converting a Collection to an Array
   18. Rolling Your Own Iterator
   19. Stack
   20. Multidimensional Structures
   21. Program: Timing Comparisons
10. 8. Object-Oriented Techniques
    1. Introduction
    2. Formatting Objects for Printing with toString()
    3. Overriding the equals() and hashCode() Methods
    4. Using Shutdown Hooks for Application Cleanup
    5. Using Inner Classes
    6. Providing Callbacks via Interfaces
    7. Polymorphism/Abstract Methods
    8. Passing Values
    9. Using Typesafe Enumerations
    10. Enforcing the Singleton Pattern
    11. Roll Your Own Exceptions
    12. Using Dependency Injection
    13. Program: Plotter
11. 9. Functional Programming Techniques: Functional Interfaces, Streams, Parallel Collections
    1. Introduction
    2. Using Lambdas/Closures Instead of Inner Classes
    3. Using Lambda Predefined Interfaces Instead of Your Own
    4. Simplifying Processing with Streams
    5. Improving Throughput with Parallel Streams and Collections
    6. Creating Your Own Functional Interfaces
    7. Using Existing Code as Functional with Method References
    8. Java Mixins: Mixing in Methods
12. 10. Input and Output
    1. Introduction
    2. Reading Standard Input
    3. Reading from the Console or Controlling Terminal; Reading Passwords Without Echoing
    4. Writing Standard Output or Standard Error
    5. Printing with Formatter and printf
    6. Scanning Input with StreamTokenizer
    7. Scanning Input with the Scanner Class
    8. Scanning Input with Grammatical Structure
    9. Opening a File by Name
    10. Copying a File
    11. Reading a File into a String
    12. Reassigning the Standard Streams
    13. Duplicating a Stream as It Is Written
    14. Reading/Writing a Different Character Set
    15. Those Pesky End-of-Line Characters
    16. Beware Platform-Dependent File Code
    17. Reading “Continued” Lines
    18. Reading/Writing Binary Data
    19. Seeking to a Position within a File
    20. Writing Data Streams from C
    21. Saving and Restoring Java Objects
    22. Preventing ClassCastExceptions with SerialVersionUID
    23. Reading and Writing JAR or ZIP Archives
    24. Finding Files in a Filesystem-Neutral Way with getResource() and getResourceAsStream()
    25. Reading and Writing Compressed Files
    26. Learning about the Communications API for Serial and Parallel Ports
    27. Save User Data to Disk
    28. Program: Text to PostScript
13. 11. Directory and Filesystem Operations
    1. Introduction
    2. Getting File Information
    3. Creating a File
    4. Renaming a File
    5. Deleting a File
    6. Creating a Transient File
    7. Changing File Attributes
    8. Listing a Directory
    9. Getting the Directory Roots
    10. Creating New Directories
    11. Using Path instead of File
    12. Using the FileWatcher Service to Get Notified about File Changes
    13. Program: Find
14. 12. Media: Graphics, Audio, Video
    1. Introduction
    2. Painting with a Graphics Object
    3. Showing Graphical Components Without Writing Main
    4. Drawing Text
    5. Drawing Centered Text in a Component
    6. Drawing a Drop Shadow
    7. Drawing Text with 2D
    8. Drawing Text with an Application Font
    9. Drawing an Image
    10. Reading and Writing Images with javax.imageio
    11. Playing an Audio/Sound File
    12. Playing a Video File
    13. Printing in Java
    14. Program: PlotterAWT
    15. Program: Grapher
15. 13. Network Clients
    1. Introduction
    2. Contacting a Server
    3. Finding and Reporting Network Addresses
    4. Handling Network Errors
    5. Reading and Writing Textual Data
    6. Reading and Writing Binary Data
    7. Reading and Writing Serialized Data
    8. UDP Datagrams
    9. Program: TFTP UDP Client
    10. URI, URL, or URN?
    11. REST Web Service Client
    12. SOAP Web Service Client
    13. Program: Telnet Client
    14. Program: Chat Client
    15. Program: Simple HTTP Link Checker
16. 14. Graphical User Interfaces
    1. Introduction
    2. Displaying GUI Components
    3. Run Your GUI on the Event Dispatching Thread
    4. Designing a Window Layout
    5. A Tabbed View of Life
    6. Action Handling: Making Buttons Work
    7. Action Handling Using Anonymous Inner Classes
    8. Action Handling Using Lambdas
    9. Terminating a Program with “Window Close”
    10. Dialogs: When Later Just Won’t Do
    11. Catching and Formatting GUI Exceptions
    12. Getting Program Output into a Window
    13. Choosing a Value with JSpinner
    14. Choosing a File with JFileChooser
    15. Choosing a Color
    16. Formatting JComponents with HTML
    17. Centering a Main Window
    18. Changing a Swing Program’s Look and Feel
    19. Enhancing Your Swing GUI for Mac OS X
    20. Building Your GUI Application with JavaFX
    21. Program: Custom Font Chooser
    22. Program: Custom AWT/Swing Layout Manager
17. 15. Internationalization and Localization
    1. Introduction
    2. Creating a Button with I18N Resources
    3. Listing Available Locales
    4. Creating a Menu with I18N Resources
    5. Writing Internationalization Convenience Routines
    6. Creating a Dialog with I18N Resources
    7. Creating a Resource Bundle
    8. Extracting Strings from Your Code
    9. Using a Particular Locale
    10. Setting the Default Locale
    11. Formatting Messages with MessageFormat
    12. Program: MenuIntl
    13. Program: BusCard
18. 16. Server-Side Java
    1. Introduction
    2. Opening a Server Socket for Business
    3. Returning a Response (String or Binary)
    4. Returning Object Information Across a Network Connection
    5. Handling Multiple Clients
    6. Serving the HTTP Protocol
    7. Securing a Web Server with SSL and JSSE
    8. Network Logging
    9. Network Logging with SLF4J
    10. Network Logging with log4j
    11. Network Logging with java.util.logging
    12. Finding Network Interfaces
    13. Program: A Java Chat Server
19. 17. Java and Electronic Mail
    1. Introduction
    2. Sending Email: Browser Version
    3. Sending Email: For Real
    4. Mail-Enabling a Server Program
    5. Sending MIME Mail
    6. Providing Mail Settings
    7. Reading Email
    8. Program: MailReaderBean
    9. Program: MailClient
20. 18. Database Access
    1. Introduction
    2. Easy Database Access with JPA and/or Hibernate
    3. JDBC Setup and Connection
    4. Connecting to a JDBC Database
    5. Sending a JDBC Query and Getting Results
    6. Using JDBC Prepared Statements
    7. Using Stored Procedures with JDBC
    8. Changing Data Using a ResultSet
    9. Storing Results in a RowSet
    10. Changing Data Using SQL
    11. Finding JDBC Metadata
    12. Program: SQLRunner
21. 19. Processing JSON Data
    1. Introduction
    2. Generating JSON Directly
    3. Parsing and Writing JSON with Jackson
    4. Parsing and Writing JSON with org.json
22. 20. Processing XML
    1. Introduction
    2. Converting Between Objects and XML with JAXB
    3. Converting Between Objects and XML with Serializers
    4. Transforming XML with XSLT
    5. Parsing XML with SAX
    6. Parsing XML with DOM
    7. Finding XML Elements with XPath
    8. Verifying Structure with Schema or DTD
    9. Generating Your Own XML with DOM and the XML Transformer
    10. Program: xml2mif
23. 21. Packages and Packaging
    1. Introduction
    2. Creating a Package
    3. Documenting Classes with Javadoc
    4. Beyond Javadoc: Annotations/Metadata
    5. Archiving with jar
    6. Running a Program from a JAR
    7. Preparing a Class as a JavaBean
    8. Pickling Your Bean into a JAR
    9. Packaging a Servlet into a WAR File
    10. “Write Once, Install Anywhere”
    11. “Write Once, Install on Mac OS X”
    12. Java Web Start
    13. Signing Your JAR File
24. 22. Threaded Java
    1. Introduction
    2. Running Code in a Different Thread
    3. Displaying a Moving Image with Animation
    4. Stopping a Thread
    5. Rendezvous and Timeouts
    6. Synchronizing Threads with the synchronized Keyword
    7. Simplifying Synchronization with Locks
    8. Synchronizing Threads the Hard Way with wait( ) and notifyAll( )
    9. Simplifying Producer/Consumer with the Queue Interface
    10. Optimizing Parallel Processing with Fork/Join
    11. Background Saving in an Editor
    12. Program: Threaded Network Server
    13. Simplifying Servers Using the Concurrency Utilities
25. 23. Reflection, or “A Class Named Class”
    1. Introduction
    2. Getting a Class Descriptor
    3. Finding and Using Methods and Fields
    4. Accessing Private Methods and Fields via Reflection
    5. Loading and Instantiating a Class Dynamically
    6. Constructing a Class from Scratch with a ClassLoader
    7. Performance Timing
    8. Printing Class Information
    9. Listing Classes in a Package
    10. Using and Defining Annotations
    11. Finding Plug-in-like Classes via Annotations
    12. Program: CrossRef
    13. Program: AppletViewer
26. 24. Using Java with Other Languages
    1. Introduction
    2. Running an External Program from Java
    3. Running a Program and Capturing Its Output
    4. Calling Other Languages via javax.script
    5. Roll Your Own Scripting Engine
    6. Marrying Java and Perl
    7. Calling Other Languages via Native Code
    8. Calling Java from Native Code
27. Afterword
28. A. Java Then and Now
    1. Introduction: Always in Motion the Java Is
    2. Java Preview: HotJava
    3. Java Arrives: 1.0
    4. What Was New in Java 1.1
    5. What Was New in Java 2 (Java SDK 1.2)
    6. What Was New in Java 1.3
    7. What Was New in Java 1.4
    8. What Was New in Java 5
    9. What Was New in Java 6
    10. What Was New in Java 7
    11. What Is New in Java 8
    12. Look Away Beyond the Blue Horizon…
29. Index
30. Colophon
31. Copyright