Learning Java, 4th Edition

Using This Book

This book is organized roughly as follows:

• Chapters 1 and 2 provide a basic introduction to Java concepts and a tutorial to give you a jump start on Java programming.

• Chapter 3 discusses fundamental tools for developing with Java (the compiler, the interpreter, and the JAR file package).

• Chapters 4 through 7 describe the Java language itself, beginning with the basic syntax and then covering classes and objects, exceptions, arrays, enumerations, annotations, and much more.

• Chapter 8 covers generics and parameterized types in Java.

• Chapter 9 covers the language’s built-in thread facilities and the Java Concurrency package, which should be of particular interest to advanced programmers.

• Chapter 10 covers text processing, formatting, scanning, string utilities, and the powerful regular expressions API.

• Chapter 11 covers much of the core API including utilities and collections.

• Chapter 12 covers Java I/O, streams, files, and the NIO package.

• Chapters 13 and 14 cover Java networking, including sockets and NIO, URLs, and RMI.

• Chapter 15 covers web applications using servlets, servlet filters, and WAR files, as well as web services.

• Chapters 16 through 21 cover GUI development with the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) and Swing, which provide graphical user interface (GUI) and image support.

• Chapter 22 covers the JavaBeans component architecture and introduces the NetBeans IDE.

• Chapter 23 covers applets.

• Chapter 24 covers the Java APIs for working with XML and XSLT, including XML Schema, ...