Java 5.0 Tiger Programming Master Secrets

Author: (USA) McLaughlin
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: The next Java version code-named "Tiger" is not just a minor revision. There are over 100 changes in the core language, along with significant enhancements to libraries and APIs, giving developers many new features, tools, and technologies. But with so many changes, where should you start? You could begin with the lengthy and tedious language specification document; or wait for a 500-page tome of concepts and theory; or even just play with the new JDK to see what you can discover; or thoroughly study it with Java 5.0 Tiger: The Complete Reference. This book, co-authored by bestselling Java authors Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan, offers practical, straight-to-the-point guidance that skips the dry academic approach and dives straight into the heart of Tiger. By the end of each chapter, readers will master many important new language features, and within the first 20 pages, they'll find themselves immersed in code. Through over 50 example programs, readers will gain a comprehensive and practical understanding of generics, learn how boxing and unboxing affect type conversions, discover the power of varargs, understand how to write enumerated types and annotations, master Java's new formatting methods and for/in loops, and even gain a deep understanding of the concurrent nature of the JVM. As you read, you will realize:
· Generics, including type-safe collections and custom generic classes.
· Enumerated types and values, and their relationship to public static final constants.
· Tiger's autoboxing and auto-unboxing conversions between primitive types and wrapper types.
· Varargs (variable-length arguments), including custom varargs methods.
· Tiger's extensive support for compiler-checked annotations.
· For/in loops.
· New format() and printf() formatting methods.
· The concurrent nature of Tiger, including locks, scheduling timers, uncaught exceptions in threads, and the new Callable interface.
Java 5.0 Tiger: The Complete Reference, as the title suggests, is exactly what expert hackers want to know before diving into a new language like Java or working on a project—sharing insights before you even start. The code samples in the book are so well annotated that there are more markings than actual text. Interestingly, the focus isn't on what's pretty or interesting, but on what you absolutely need to "deliver."
The next Java version code-named "Tiger" is not just a minor revision. There are over 100 changes in the core language, along with significant enhancements to libraries and APIs, giving developers many new features, tools, and technologies. But with so many changes, where should you start? You could begin with the lengthy and tedious language specification document; or wait for a 500-page tome of concepts and theory; or even just play with the new JDK to see what you can discover; or thoroughly study it with Java 5.0 Tiger: The Complete Reference. This book, co-authored by bestselling Java authors Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan, offers practical, straight-to-the-point guidance that skips the dry academic approach and dives straight into the heart of Tiger. By the end of each chapter, readers will master many important new language features, and within the first 20 pages, they'll find themselves immersed in code. Through over 50 example programs, readers will gain a comprehensive and practical understanding of generics, learn how boxing and unboxing affect type conversions, discover the power of varargs, understand how to write enumerated types and annotations, master Java's new formatting methods and for/in loops, and even gain a deep understanding of the concurrent nature of the JVM. As you read, you will realize:
· Generics, including type-safe collections and custom generic classes.
· Enumerated types and values, and their relationship to public static final constants.
· Tiger's autoboxing and auto-unboxing conversions between primitive types and wrapper types.
· Varargs (variable-length arguments), including custom varargs methods.
· Tiger's extensive support for compiler-checked annotations.
· For/in loops.
· New format() and printf() formatting methods.
· The concurrent nature of Tiger, including locks, scheduling timers, uncaught exceptions in threads, and the new Callable interface.