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Java Cookbook
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Java Cookbook

by Ian F. Darwin
June 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
888 pages
21h 1m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Finding More Java Source Code

Problem

You want even more Java code examples to look at.

Solution

Use The Source, Luke.

Discussion

Java source code is everywhere. As mentioned in the Preface, all the code examples from this book can be downloaded from the O’Reilly site (http://java.oreilly.com). What I didn’t tell you, but what you might have realized by extension, is that the source examples from all the O’Reilly Java books are available there too: the Java Examples in a Nutshell book; the Java Swing book; all of them.

Another valuable resource is the source code for the Java API. You may not have realized it, but the source code for all the public parts of the Java API are included with each release of the Java Development Kit. Want to know how java.util.ArrayList actually works? You have the source code. Got a problem making a JTable behave? Sun’s JDK includes the source for all the public classes! Look for a file called src.zip or src.jar ; some versions unzip this and some do not.

If that’s not enough, you can get the source for all of the JDK for free over the Internet just by committing to the Sun Java Community Source License and downloading a large file. This includes the source for the public and non-public parts of the API, as well as the compiler (written in Java) and a large body of code written in “native” code ( C/C++): the runtime itself and the interfaces to the native library. For example, java.io.Reader has a method called read( ) , which reads bytes of data ...

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