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Fully updated to reflect Java SE 7 language changes, Core Java®, Volume II—Advanced Features, Ninth Edition, is the definitive guide to Java’s most powerful features for enterprise and desktop application development.

 

Designed for serious programmers, this reliable, unbiased, no-nonsense tutorial illuminates advanced Java language and library features with thoroughly tested code examples. As in previous editions, all code is easy to understand and displays modern best-practice solutions to the realworld challenges faced by professional developers.

 

Volume II quickly brings you up-to-speed on key Java SE 7 enhancements, ranging from the new file I/O API to improved concurrency utilities. All code examples are updated to reflect these enhancements. Complete descriptions of new language and platform features are highlighted and integrated with insightful explanations of advanced Java programming techniques. You’ll learn all you need to build robust production software with 

  • Streams, files, and regular expressions
  • XML
  • Networking
  • Database programming facilities
  • JNDI/LDAP directory integration
  • Internationalization
  • Advanced Swing techniques
  • JavaBeans components
  • Web services
  • Advanced platform security features
  • Annotations
  • Distributed objects
  • Native methods, and more 

For detailed coverage of fundamental Java SE 7 features, including objects, classes, inheritance, interfaces, reflection, events, exceptions, graphics, Swing, generics, collections, concurrency, and debugging, look for Core Java™, Volume I—Fundamentals, Ninth Edition (ISBN-13: 978-0-13-708189-9).

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed & clear., May 4, 2013
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Easy reading, even my mother language is not English. It's worth it totally. The author is not only telling what Java can do, but also what it cannot do. As we know, Java has its defects. The author doesn't avoid them.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A total of 2092 pages of pure Java learning material, May 4, 2013
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This review is from: Core Java, Volume II--Advanced Features (9th Edition) (Core Series) (Paperback)
This review covers both Core Java Volume I--Fundamentals (9th Edition) and Core Java, Volume II--Advanced Features (9th Edition). Both books are part of the Prentice Hall Core Series.

I actually got Volume II first and liked it so much I ordered Volume I. I felt like I was missing the first half of the story. Especially when I downloaded the code and both volumes were included.

These two books take you on quite a journey. The first volume starts off with a great overview and history of Java. It then goes into how to download, install, and configure both the JDK and Eclipse. The authors uses Eclipse throughout both volumes.

The rest of Volume I is dedicate to covering the fundamental concepts of the Java language and the basics of user-interface programming. I have listed the chapters in Volume I below.

Volume I
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Java
Chapter 2. The Java Programming Environment
Chapter 3. Fundamental Programming... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars great for beginner, June 4, 2013
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The two volume book provide enough depth for beginner to start with & also leave room for reader themselves to explore in Internet to get further, like how to access c++ library done by others.
I think it would be better if the book covers more on RMI, SECURITY, NATIVE CODE, NIO, crypto, & etc rather than swing
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Scripting, Compiling, and Annotation Processing in Java

Table of Contents

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xix

 

Chapter 1: Streams and Files 1

1.1 Streams 2

1.2 Text Input and Output 13

1.3 Reading and Writing Binary Data 25

1.4 ZIP Archives 33

1.5 Object Streams and Serialization 36

1.6 Working with Files 57

1.7 Memory-Mapped Files 68

1.8 Regular Expressions 81

 

Chapter 2: XML 93

2.1 Introducing XML 94

2.2 Parsing an XML Document 99

2.3 Validating XML Documents 113

2.4 Locating Information with XPath 140

2.5 Using Namespaces 147

2.6 Streaming Parsers 150

2.7 Generating XML Documents 159

2.8 XSL Transformations 173

 

Chapter 3: Networking 185

3.1 Connecting to a Server 185

3.2 Implementing Servers 194

3.3 Interruptible Sockets 202

3.4 Getting Web Data 210

3.5 Sending E-Mail 230

 

Chapter 4: Database Programming 235

4.1 The Design of JDBC 236

4.2 The Structured Query Language 239

4.3 JDBC Configuration 245

4.4 Executing SQL Statements 252

4.5 Query Execution 262

4.6 Scrollable and Updatable Result Sets 274

4.7 Row Sets 281

4.8 Metadata 286

4.9 Transactions 296

4.10 Connection Management in Web and Enterprise Applications 302

 

Chapter 5: Internationalization 305

5.1 Locales 306

5.2 Number Formats 311

5.3 Date and Time 319

5.4 Collation 328

5.5 Message Formatting 336

5.6 Text Files and Character Sets 340

5.7 Resource Bundles 341

5.8 A Complete Example 346

 

Chapter 6: Advanced Swing 363

6.1 Lists 364

6.2 Tables 381

6.3 Trees 420

6.4 Text Components 462

6.5 Progress Indicators 501

6.6 Component Organizers and Decorators 514

 

Chapter 7: Advanced AWT 549

7.1 The Rendering Pipeline 550

7.2 Shapes 553

7.3 Areas 570

7.4 Strokes 572

7.5 Paint 581

7.6 Coordinate Transformations 583

7.7 Clipping 589

7.8 Transparency and Composition 592

7.9 Rendering Hints 601

7.10 Readers and Writers for Images 608

7.11 Image Manipulation 619

7.12 Printing 636

7.13 The Clipboard 672

7.14 Drag and Drop 689

7.15 Platform Integration 707

 

Chapter 8: JavaBeans Components 725

8.1 Why Beans? 726

8.2 The Bean-Writing Process 728

8.3 Using Beans to Build an Application 731

8.4 Naming Patterns for Bean Properties and Events 740

8.5 Bean Property Types 743

8.6 BeanInfo Classes 754

8.7 Property Editors 758

8.8 Customizers 770

8.9 JavaBeans Persistence 779

 

Chapter 9: Security 803

9.1 Class Loaders 804

9.2 Bytecode Verification 816

9.3 Security Managers and Permissions 821

9.4 User Authentication 842

9.5 Digital Signatures 858

9.6 Code Signing 873

9.7 Encryption 880

 

Chapter 10: Scripting, Compiling, and Annotation Processing 893

10.1 Scripting for the Java Platform 894

10.2 The Compiler API 907

10.3 Using Annotations 919

10.4 Annotation Syntax 926

10.5 Standard Annotations 931

10.6 Source-Level Annotation Processing 935

10.7 Bytecode Engineering 943

 

Chapter 11: Distributed Objects 953

11.1 The Roles of Client and Server 954

11.2 Remote Method Calls 957

11.3 The RMI Programming Model 959

11.4 Parameters and Return Values in Remote Methods 970

11.5 Remote Object Activation 980

 

Chapter 12: Native Methods 989

12.1 Calling a C Function from a Java Program 990

12.2 Numeric Parameters and Return Values 997

12.3 String Parameters 999

12.4 Accessing Fields 1005

12.5 Encoding Signatures 1010

12.6 Calling Java Methods 1012

12.7 Accessing Array Elements 1019

12.8 Handling Errors 1023

12.9 Using the Invocation API 1028

12.10 A Complete Example: Accessing the Windows Registry 1034

 

Index 1051

Appendix

Please visit the author suggested site at www.horstmann.com/corejava

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