Table of Contents | Learning Java

Learning Java, 3rd Edition
By Jonathan Knudsen, Patrick Niemeyer
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: May 2005
ISBN: 0-596-00873-2
Pages: 976

Table of Contents | Index

Preface

New Developments

Using This Book

Online Resources

Conventions Used in This Book

Using Code Examples

Safari Enabled

How to Contact Us

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. A Modern Language

Section 1.1. Enter Java

Section 1.2. A Virtual Machine

Section 1.3. Java Compared with Other Languages

Section 1.4. Safety of Design

Section 1.5. Safety of Implementation

Section 1.6. Application and User-Level Security

Section 1.7. Java and the Web

Section 1.8. Java as a General Application Language

Section 1.9. A Java Road Map

Chapter 2. A First Application

Section 2.1. Java Tools and Environment

Section 2.2. HelloJava

Section 2.3. HelloJava2: The Sequel

Section 2.4. HelloJava3: The Button Strikes!

Section 2.5. HelloJava4: Netscape's Revenge

Section 2.6. Troubleshooting

Chapter 3. Tools of the Trade

Section 3.1. The Java VM

Section 3.2. Running Java Applications

Section 3.3. The Classpath

Section 3.4. The Java Compiler

Section 3.5. JAR Files

Section 3.6. Policy Files

Chapter 4. The Java Language

Section 4.1. Text Encoding

Section 4.2. Comments

Section 4.3. Types

Section 4.4. Statements and Expressions

Section 4.5. Exceptions

Section 4.6. Assertions

Section 4.7. Arrays

Chapter 5. Objects in Java

Section 5.1. Classes

Section 5.2. Methods

Section 5.3. Object Creation

Section 5.4. Object Destruction

Section 5.5. Enumerations

Chapter 6. Relationships Among Classes

Section 6.1. Subclassing and Inheritance

Section 6.2. Interfaces

Section 6.3. Packages and Compilation Units

Section 6.4. Visibility of Variables and Methods

Section 6.5. Arrays and the Class Hierarchy

Section 6.6. Inner Classes

Chapter 7. Working with Objects and Classes

Section 7.1. The Object Class

Section 7.2. The Class Class

Section 7.3. Reflection

Section 7.4. Annotations

Chapter 8. Generics

Section 8.1. Containers: Building a Better Mousetrap

Section 8.2. Enter Generics

Section 8.3. "There Is No Spoon"

Section 8.4. Parameterized Type Relationships

Section 8.5. Casts

Section 8.6. Writing Generic Classes

Section 8.7. Bounds

Section 8.8. Wildcards

Section 8.9. Generic Methods

Section 8.10. Arrays of Parameterized Types

Section 8.11. Case Study: The Enum Class

Section 8.12. Case Study: The sort( ) Method

Section 8.13. Conclusion

Chapter 9. Threads

Section 9.1. Introducing Threads

Section 9.2. Threading an Applet

Section 9.3. Synchronization

Section 9.4. Scheduling and Priority

Section 9.5. Thread Groups

Section 9.6. Thread Performance

Section 9.7. Concurrency Utilities

Section 9.8. Conclusion

Chapter 10. Working with Text

Section 10.1. Text-Related APIs

Section 10.2. Strings

Section 10.3. Internationalization

Section 10.4. Parsing and Formatting Text

Section 10.5. Printf-Style Formatting

Section 10.6. Formatting with the java.text Package

Section 10.7. Regular Expressions

Chapter 11. Core Utilities

Section 11.1. Math Utilities

Section 11.2. Dates and Times

Section 11.3. Timers

Section 11.4. Collections

Section 11.5. Properties

Section 11.6. The Preferences API

Section 11.7. The Logging API

Section 11.8. Observers and Observables

Chapter 12. Input/Output Facilities

Section 12.1. Streams

Section 12.2. Files

Section 12.3. Serialization

Section 12.4. Data Compression

Section 12.5. The NIO Package

Chapter 13. Network Programming

Section 13.1. Sockets

Section 13.2. Datagram Sockets

Section 13.3. Simple Serialized Object Protocols

Section 13.4. Remote Method Invocation

Section 13.5. Scalable I/O with NIO

Chapter 14. Programming for the Web

Section 14.1. Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)

Section 14.2. The URL Class

Section 14.3. Talking to Web Applications

Section 14.4. Web Services

Chapter 15. Web Applications and Web Services

Section 15.1. Web Application Technologies

Section 15.2. Web Applications

Section 15.3. WAR Files and Deployment

Section 15.4. Servlet Filters

Section 15.5. Building WAR Files with Ant

Section 15.6. Implementing Web Services

Chapter 16. Swing

Section 16.1. Components

Section 16.2. Events

Section 16.3. Event Summary

Section 16.4. The AWT Robot!

Section 16.5. Multithreading in Swing

Chapter 17. Using Swing Components

Section 17.1. Buttons and Labels

Section 17.2. HTML Text in Buttons and Labels

Section 17.3. Checkboxes and Radio Buttons

Section 17.4. Lists and Combo Boxes

Section 17.5. The Spinner

Section 17.6. Borders

Section 17.7. Menus

Section 17.8. Pop-up Menus

Section 17.9. Component-Managed Pop-ups

Section 17.10. The JScrollPane Class

Section 17.11. The JSplitPane Class

Section 17.12. The JTabbedPane Class

Section 17.13. Scrollbars and Sliders

Section 17.14. Dialogs

Section 17.15. File Selection Dialog

Section 17.16. The Color Chooser

Chapter 18. More Swing Components

Section 18.1. Text Components

Section 18.2. Focus Navigation

Section 18.3. Tables

Section 18.4. Desktops

Section 18.5. Pluggable Look-and-Feel

Section 18.6. Creating Custom Components

Chapter 19. Layout Managers

Section 19.1. FlowLayout

Section 19.2. GridLayout

Section 19.3. BorderLayout

Section 19.4. BoxLayout

Section 19.5. CardLayout

Section 19.6. GridBagLayout

Section 19.7. Nonstandard Layout Managers

Section 19.8. Absolute Positioning

Section 19.9. SpringLayout

Chapter 20. Drawing with the 2D API

Section 20.1. The Big Picture

Section 20.2. The Rendering Pipeline

Section 20.3. A Quick Tour of Java 2D

Section 20.4. Filling Shapes

Section 20.5. Stroking Shape Outlines

Section 20.6. Using Fonts

Section 20.7. Displaying Images

Section 20.8. Drawing Techniques

Section 20.9. Printing

Chapter 21. Working with Images and Other Media

Section 21.1. Loading Images

Section 21.2. Producing Image Data

Section 21.3. Filtering Image Data

Section 21.4. Saving Image Data

Section 21.5. Simple Audio

Section 21.6. Java Media Framework

Chapter 22. JavaBeans

Section 22.1. What's a Bean?

Section 22.2. The NetBeans IDE

Section 22.3. Properties and Customizers

Section 22.4. Event Hookups and Adapters

Section 22.5. Binding Properties

Section 22.6. Building Beans

Section 22.7. Limitations of Visual Design

Section 22.8. Serialization Versus Code Generation

Section 22.9. Customizing with BeanInfo

Section 22.10. Hand-Coding with Beans

Section 22.11. BeanContext and BeanContextServices

Section 22.12. The Java Activation Framework

Section 22.13. Enterprise JavaBeans

Chapter 23. Applets

Section 23.1. The Politics of Applets

Section 23.2. The JApplet Class

Section 23.3. Using the Java Plug-in

Section 23.4. Java Web Start

Section 23.5. Using Digital Signatures

Section 23.6. Conclusion

Chapter 24. XML

Section 24.1. A Bit of Background

Section 24.2. XML Basics

Section 24.3. SAX

Section 24.4. DOM

Section 24.5. XPath

Section 24.6. XInclude

Section 24.7. Validating Documents

Section 24.8. JAXB and Code Generation

Section 24.9. Transforming Documents with XSL/XSLT

Section 24.10. Web Services

Section 24.11. The End of the Book

Appendix A. The Eclipse IDE

Section A.1. The IDE Wars

Section A.2. Getting Started with Eclipse

Section A.3. Using Eclipse

Section A.4. Eclipse Features

Section A.5. Conclusion

Appendix B. BeanShell: Simple Java Scripting

Section B.1. Running BeanShell

Section B.2. Java Statements and Expressions

Section B.3. BeanShell Commands

Section B.4. Scripted Methods and Objects

Section B.5. Changing the Classpath

Section B.6. Learning More . . .

Glossary

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About the Authors

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Index