Java in a Nutshell, 4/e

Java just keeps growing, adding features, functionality, complexity, and tempting developers to growl with frustration. The new 1.4 release of Java 2 Standard edition increases the size of the platform by 50%, to 2757 classes in 135 packages. How are you going to figure out what this means for your applications? As always, Java in a Nutshell has the answers. The new 4th edition still contains an accelerated introduction to the Java programming language and its key APIs so you can start writing code right away. And with more than 250 new pages, author David Flanagan quickly brings you up to speed on new features that come with version 1.4:

• High-performance NIO API
  
• Support for pattern matching with regular expressions
  
• A logging API
  
• A user preferences API
  
• New Collections classes
  
• An XML-based persistence mechanism for Java Beans
  
• Support for XML parsing using both the DOM and SAX APIs
  
• User authentication with the JAAS API
  
• Support for secure network connections using the SSL protocol
  
• Support for cryptography
  

The book contains O'Reilly's classic quick-reference for all the classes in the essential Java packages, so you can dive in and find what you need to make the new 1.4 version work for you. For as long as Java developers have existed, Java in a Nutshell has been ready, willing and able to take you right to the heart of the program, turning those frustrated grrrrss into purrrss of satisfaction. No wonder readers of Java Developer's Journal voted this the "Best Java Book" the past two years in a row!

Table of Contents

Preface

PART 1: Introducing Java

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Java Syntax from the Ground Up
Chapter 3. Object-Oriented Programming in Java
Chapter 4. The Java Platform
Chapter 5. Java Security
Chapter 6. JavaBeans
Chapter 7. Java Programming and Documentation
Chapter 8. Java Development Tools
PART 2: API Quick Reference
 
Chapter 9. java.beans and java.beans.beancontext
Chapter 10. java.io
Chapter 11. java.lang, java.lang.ref, and java.lang.reflect
Chapter 12. java.math
Chapter 13. java.net
Chapter 14. java.nio and Subpackages
Chapter 15. java.security and Subpackages

Chapter 16. java.text
Chapter 17. java.util and Subpackages
Chapter 18. javax.crypto and Subpackages
Chapter 19. javax.net and javax.net.ssl
Chapter 20. javax.security.auth and Subpackages
Chapter 21. javax.xml.parsers, java.xml.transform, and Subpackages
Chapter 22. org.ietf.jgss
Chapter 23. org.w3c.dom
Chapter 24. org.xml.sax, org.xml.sax.ext, and org.xml.sax.helpers
Chapter 25. Class, Method, and Field Index

Index