21 Days to Mastering Java 2: 3rd Edition: Professional Reference Edition

Author: [US] Kadenkahead / [US] Lemay / Chen Wu / Yuan Guozhong
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This book introduces the Java language and how to use it to create applications that can run in any computing environment and applets that run in web browsers. After reading this book, readers will gain an in-depth understanding of the Java language and the Java class library, and will be able to develop programs to accomplish tasks such as retrieving data through Internet and database connections, interactive games, and client/server programming. This book includes a 4-week course, and by reading these courses, readers will acquire the knowledge and skills to develop applications, applets, and servlets using Java. Week 1 introduces the basic knowledge of the Java language, including data types, variables, expressions, objects, arrays, conditional statements, loops, classes, interfaces, packages, exceptions, and threads; Week 2 introduces the Java class library, including data structures such as vectors, stacks, mappings, hash tables, and bit groups, as well as Swing components, layout managers, event handling classes, and applets; Week 3 introduces streams, object serialization, communication over the Internet, JavaBeans, JavaSound, JDBC, and JDBC-ODBC, XML, and other content; The additional course is a new addition to this edition, introducing advanced topics such as servlets, JavaServer, Page, Java 1.0 applets, Java WebStart, XML-RPC, and regular expressions. This book can serve as a tutorial for beginners to learn Java programming technology, and can also be used as a reference for programmers who have mastered other languages when learning Java.