ISBN 13: 978-93-5023-101-2
This book is our attempt to provide the readers with all the necessary information on how to set up the Java development environment and get started with client side, application development, using Java 7.
In a step by step, easy to follow manner, the book takes one through application development. It assists in getting a good grip on the Java syntax and its methodologies to confidently craft robust applications using Java SE 7. It explores the Core of Java along with the improvements of Java SE 7, examines the various specifications and describes how to assemble them to develop applications with plenty of real world examples with complete code spec and diagrams to make it easier to follow.
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, you should find this book, a valuable and accessible knowledge base for crafting robust Java solutions.What You’ll Learn?
Java Development Kit 7 as the Platform Language Basics
o Fundamentals
o Operators
o Control Flow Statements
o Iterations
o Classes
o Inheritance
o Abstract Classes And Interfaces
o Packages And Imports
o Enumerations
o Annotations
o JavaBeans Components
o Javadoc
Java Utilities And The Collection Framework
o Arrays
o Vectors
o Collections
o Generic Programming
o ArrayList
o LinkedList
GUI
o Applets
o Abstract Window Toolkit [AWT]
o Swing
Event And Exception Handling
o Event Handling
o Exceptions
Java DataBase Connectivity [JDBC]
o MySQL 5 as the Database Engine
Networking And I/O
o Sockets And Network
o Concurrency and Multithreading
o Remote Method Innvocation
o Java I/O System
XML And Java
o Java API For XML Processing [JAXP]
§ SAX
§ DOM
o Streaming API For XML [StAX]
§ Read RSS Feeds using StAX
o Java Architecture For XML Binding [JAXB]
o XPath
Java Servlets
Java Servlets is a part of the Java EE technologies and hence is out of the scope of this book. For those who want to quickly get started with Java Servlets can refer to this section. It uses the NetBeans IDE to craft and run the examples.
NetBeans 6.9 as the IDE
Edition: First
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THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE BOOK
Primer Of Java SE
Introduction to Java, Setting up the development environment using JDK 7
Language Basics
Fundamentals, Operators, Control Flow Statements, Iterations, Classes, Inheritance, Abstract Classes And Interfaces, Packages And Imports, Enumerations, Annotations, JavaBeans Components, Javadoc
Java Utilities And The Collection Framework
Arrays, Vectors, Collections, Generic Programming, ArrayList, LinkedList
GUI
Applets, Abstract Window Toolkit [AWT], Swing
Event And Exception Handling
Java DataBase Connectivity [JDBC]
Networking And I/O
Sockets And Network, Concurrency and Multithreading, Remote Method Innvocation, Java I/O System
Java Servlets
Introduction, Writing the first Servlet
XML And Java
Java API For XML Processing [JAXP]: SAX & DOM, Streaming API For XML [StAX], Read RSS Feeds using StAX, Java Architecture For XML Binding [JAXB], XPath
Interesting Features
Autoboxing/Unboxing, Language support for collections, The diamond operator, Enhanced, for-each style for loop, Variable-length arguments [varargs], Static import, Underscores in numeric literals, Binary literals, Switch Case with Strings, Annotations on Java Types
CONTENTS OF THE CD-ROM
Setup files for NetBeans IDE 6.9
MySQL 5.1
MySQL Connector/J 5.1
JDK 7
Source code for every example in this book