Chapter 8. What s New in J2SE 1.4

Chapter 8. What's New in J2SE 1.4

Terms you'll need to understand:

• Extensible Markup Language (XML)

• LinkedHashMap

• Regular expressions

• Logging

Techniques you'll need to master:

• Parsing XML files

• Using regular expressions to parse search criteria for searching a database

• Adding logging to your project for debugging and informing the user about application status

• Using a configuration file for your project

In this chapter, you review the J2SE 1.4 features that are new or significantly enhanced since J2SE 1.3. There are too many features to list here, but this chapter covers those that are most likely to interest you for the assignment and are not covered in another chapter. For example, Remote Method Invocation (RMI) is discussed in Chapter 12, "RMI."