- Basics of Android Debugging
- Apr 13, 2011
- Shane Conder and Lauren Darcey provide a walk-through of Android application debugging techniques and the logic behind them.
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- Generics 101, Part 3: Exploring Generics Through a Generic Copy Method
- Apr 6, 2011
- In the last of his three-part series, Jeff Friesen introduces you to the need for generic methods, focused on how generics are implemented to explain why you couldn’t assign new E[size] to elements.
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- Generics 101, Part 2: Exploring Generics Through a Generic Stack Type
- Mar 30, 2011
- In the second of his three-part series, Jeff Friesen shows you how to declare a generic Stack type, and explores bounded type parameters, type parameter scope, and wildcard arguments.
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- Using JPQL in Your Java Applications
- Mar 28, 2011
- Expert programmer Jesse Smith shows you how JPQL is lightweight, powerful, flexible, and can work with any database.
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- Generics 101, Part 1: What Are Generics?
- Mar 23, 2011
- Since their inclusion in the Java language, generics have proven to be controversia. Fortunately, as Jeff Friesen discusses in the first of his three-part series on generics, you can master the fundamentals without expending much effort.
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- Learn How to Use JPA in Your Java Applications by Using Entity Manager
- Mar 2, 2011
- Jesse Smith shows you how to feel confident using JPA for the most simple database operations, including associations with Entity Manager.
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- Mapping Objects to Database Tables with the Java Persistence API
- Jan 6, 2011
- Jesse Smith demonstrates how to map your applications' business objects directly to your database tables by using the Java Persistence API to make them easier to construct and debug.
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- Android Application Basics: Activities and Intents
- Nov 22, 2010
- After providing a brief overview of the basic building blocks of an Android application, this chapter explains activities and the intents that launch them.
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- Streamline Your Java Web Applications Using Java Server Faces and Managed Beans
- Nov 22, 2010
- Jesse Smith shows you how you to use Enterprise Java Beans as your managed beans behind Java Service Faces to remove at least one integration layer in your application, making your application architecture much easier to follow and more adaptable.
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- JavaFX Effects and Blending
- Oct 11, 2010
- In this chapter, you see how to use the classes in the javafx.scene.effects and javafx.scene.effects.lighting packages, which implement graphical effects that you can use to enhance the appearance of your application.
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- Introduction to Java Facelets
- Oct 6, 2010
- This chapter describes what Facelets is and goes on to show how to develop a simple facelets application.
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- Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism
- Jun 29, 2010
- Paul J. Deitel and Harvey M. Deitel continue their study of object-oriented programming by explaining and demonstrating polymorphism with inheritance hierarchies.
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- Standard JSF Tags
- Jun 24, 2010
- Development of compelling JSF applications requires a good grasp of the JSF tag libraries. This chapter covers the core library and most of the HTML tags in the standard library.
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- Exploring JDK 7, Part 4: New I/O: The Next Generation
- Jun 10, 2010
- In part 4 of this 4-part introduction to JDK 7, Jeff Friesen presents the next generation of New I/O.
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- Eclipse Rich Client Platform Concepts
- Jun 4, 2010
- This chapter introduces essential Eclipse concepts, defines some terminology, and grounds these concepts and terms in technical detail.
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- Exploring JDK 7, Part 3: Decorating Swing Components with JLayer
- Jun 3, 2010
- In part 3 of this 4-part introduction to JDK 7, Jeff Friesen focuses on JLayer, a universal decorator for Swing components.
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- Exploring JDK 7, Part 2: Translucent and Shaped Windows
- May 27, 2010
- In part 2 of this 4-part introduction to JDK 7, Jeff Friesen focuses on JDK 7’s improved support for translucent and shaped windows.
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- Exploring JDK 7, Part 1: New Language Features
- May 20, 2010
- Jeff Friesen introduces you to three of the new language features in JDK 7: binary literals, switch on string, and underscores in integer literals.
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- BlackBerry Developer's Conference Wrap-Up
- May 5, 2010
- John Wargo discusses the announcements made at the last Research In Motion developers conference.
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- Objective-C for Java Programmers, Part 2
- Mar 29, 2010
- In the second of a two-part series, David Chisnall looks at the similarities and differences in the syntax of Objective-C and Java.
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