Java 2: A Beginner's Guide and Improvement

Author: Dan Zhengang
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Java has become a globally popular tool for network programming due to its characteristics such as simplicity, object-oriented, distributed, interpreted, secure, system-independent, portable, high performance, dynamic, and multithreading. Java2 provides new graphical user interface features—Swing—which fills many gaps in previous versions, making it a truly mature and robust language loved by numerous network programmers. This book contains 17 chapters and two appendices, with multiple program examples integrated with key concepts in each chapter. The content includes: introduction to Java basic operations, basic Swing components, object-oriented programming, Java classes, interfaces, and packages, Java fundamental class library, Applet programming, using AWT, Swing for CUI programming, Java multithreaded programming, Java and network programming, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), JavaBeans, and an overview of the J2EE technology architecture. This book is suitable as a technical reference for computer enthusiasts at different levels to learn Java, as well as a teaching reference for non-computer majors in higher education institutions.