The Essential Java Class Reference for Programmers / Edition 3

The Essential Java Class Reference for Programmers / Edition 3

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by Brian Durney
     
 

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ISBN-10: 0131856456

ISBN-13: 9780131856455

Pub. Date: 11/01/2004

Publisher: Pearson

This third edition of The Essential Java Class Reference for Programmers is an easy to use, very concise and inexpensive tutorial/reference to the key class libraries used for everyday programming. The new edition has been updated for JSE 5.0. Chapter topics include Java class reference, complete examples, an HTML tutorial, Java programming

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This third edition of The Essential Java Class Reference for Programmers is an easy to use, very concise and inexpensive tutorial/reference to the key class libraries used for everyday programming. The new edition has been updated for JSE 5.0. Chapter topics include Java class reference, complete examples, an HTML tutorial, Java programming glossary, and error messages with explanations. The book includes an interactive website tutorial with examples showing how to use the libraries in Java programs. For use as a reference by professionals working with Java programming and language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:
9780131856455
Publisher:
Pearson
Publication date:
11/01/2004
Edition description:
3RD
Pages:
216
Product dimensions:
6.92(w) x 9.05(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Java Class Reference

Using the Web-Based API Documentation

Documentation for Selected Packages and Classes

java.applet Package

java.awt Package

java.awt.event Package

java.io Package

java.lang Package

java.math Package

java.net Package

java.text Package

java.util Package

java.util Package: Collections Framework

javax.swing Package

Complete Examples

How to Run Applications

How to Run Applets

Example: PageWriter

Example: PictureFrame

Example: ShowDocApplet

Example: SpotlightApplet

Example: ColorPanel

Example: WordCount

An HTML Tutorial

What Makes a Good Web Page?

Tools

Publishing Web Pages

Basics

Tables

Frames

Beyond Text and Pictures

Java Programming Glossary

Error Messages with Explanations

Using compiler error messages

Messages with explanations

Exceptions and Run-Time Error Messages

Logic Errors and Debugging

Hierarchical Index

Index

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As Java has gotten built out, the default SDK has a huge number of packages. Can be overwhelming. Typically you don't need to know all or even most of these. But which should you know? Durney supplies one such choice of packages in his book. It does not cover those packages or classes involving elementary syntax. You should already have these down. Instead, he offers certain packages of high utility. Take the NumberFormat class as an example. It lets you control the number of digits in an output. Then there are the far more complex Date and Calendar classes. These deal with various different conventions for showing the date, as well as a host of language dependent issues. For example, in most of the world, a date is written in the format day-month-year. But the US uses month-day-year. So you might need to customise your displays accordingly. These classes are also deal with the non-metric nature of the many time divisions. As a programmer, you can use the classes instead of having to re-invent a lot of functionality. But the book's chapter on Applet usage may be less useful to many readers. As Java has developed, Applets have gotten steadily downplayed. Little serious programming appears to be done with these. Before some of you get irate and berate me, take a look at the latest Sun documentation. Sun has pushed Java steadily into server-side applications, where it is doing quite well.