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Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days

by: Cadenhead, Rogers; Lemay, Laura

Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days

by: Cadenhead, Rogers; Lemay, Laura

ISBN 13:
9780672326288
ISBN 10:
0672326280
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback w/CD
Copyright: 01/01/2004
Publisher: Sams
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Summary

In just 21 days, you can acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to develop three kinds of programs with Java: applications on your computer, servlets on a Web server, and applets on the Web.

Introduction

(6)

Week 1 The Java Language

(208)

Getting Started with Java

(26)

The Java Language

(3)

History of the Language

(1)

Introduction to Java

(1)

Selecting a Development Tool

(1)

Object-Oriented Programming

(2)

Objects and Classes

(2)

Object Reuse

(1)

Attributes and Behavior

(7)

Attributes of a Class of Objects

(1)

Behavior of a Class of Objects

(1)

Creating a Class

(2)

Running the Program

(3)

Organizing Classes and Class Behavior

(7)

Inheritance

(2)

Creating a Class Hierarchy

(2)

Inheritance in Action

(1)

Single and Multiple Inheritance

(1)

Interfaces

(1)

Packages

(1)

Summary

(2)

Q&A

(1)

Quiz

(1)

Questions

(1)

Answers

(1)

Certification Practice

(1)

Exercises

(1)

The ABCs of Programming

(28)

Statements and Expressions

(1)

Variables and Data Types

(7)

Creating Variables

(1)

Naming Variables

(1)

Variable Types

(2)

Assigning Values to Variables

(1)

Constants

(2)

Comments

(1)

Literals

(3)

Number Literals

(1)

Boolean Literals

(1)

Character Literals

(1)

String Literals

(1)

Expressions and Operators

(9)

Arithmetic

(2)

More About Assignment

(1)

Incrementing and Decrementing

(1)

Comparisons

(1)

Logical Operators

(1)

Operator Precedence

(2)

String Arithmetic

(1)

Summary

(1)

Q&A

(1)

Quiz

(1)

Questions

(1)

Answers

(1)

Certification Practice

(1)

Exercises

(2)

Working with Objects

(24)

Creating New Objects

(4)

Using new

(2)

What new Does

(1)

A Note on Memory Management

(1)

Accessing and Setting Class and Instance Variables

(3)

Getting Values

(1)

Changing Values

(1)

Class Variables

(1)

Calling Methods

(3)

Nesting Method Calls

(1)

Class Methods

(1)

References to Objects

(2)

Casting and Converting Objects and Primitive Types

(5)

Casting Primitive Types

(1)

Casting Objects

(1)

Converting Primitive Types to Objects and Vice Versa

(2)

Comparing Object Values and Classes

(3)

Comparing Objects

(1)

Determining the Class of an Object

(1)

Summary

(1)

Q&A

(1)

Quiz

(2)

Questions

(1)

Answers

(1)

Certification Practice

(1)

Exercises

(1)

Lists, Logic, and Loops

(26)

Arrays

(7)

Declaring Array Variables

(1)

Creating Array Objects

(1)

Accessing Array Elements

(1)

Changing Array Elements

(2)

Multidimensional Arrays

(1)

Block Statements

(1)

if Conditionals

(2)

switch Conditionals

(5)

for Loops

102

(3)

while and do Loops

105

(2)

while Loops

105

(2)

do-while Loops

107

(1)

Breaking Out of Loops

107

(3)

Labeled Loops

108

(1)

The Conditional Operator

109

(1)

Summary

110

(1)

Q&A

110

(1)

Quiz

111

(1)

Questions

111

(1)

Answers

111

(1)

Certification Practice

111

(1)

Exercises

112

(1)

Creating Classes and Methods

113

(30)

Defining Classes

114

(1)

Creating Instance and Class Variables

114

(2)

Defining Instance Variables

114

(1)

Class Variables

115

(1)

Creating Methods

116

(6)

Defining Methods

116

(2)

The this Keyword

118

(1)

Variable Scope and Method Definitions

119

(1)

Passing Arguments to Methods

120

(1)

Class Methods

121

(1)

Creating Java Applications

122

(2)

Helper Classes

123

(1)

Java Applications and Command-Line Arguments

124

(2)

Passing Arguments to Java Applications

124

(1)

Handling Arguments in Your Java Application

125

(1)

Creating Methods with the Same Name, Different Arguments

126

(4)

Constructor Methods

130

(4)

Basic Constructor Methods

131

(1)

Calling Another Constructor Method

131

(1)

Overloading Constructor Methods

132

(2)

Overriding Methods

134

(4)

Creating Methods That Override Existing Methods

134

(1)

Calling the Original Method

135

(1)

Overriding Constructors

136

(2)

Finalizer Methods

138

(1)

Summary

139

(1)

Q&A

139

(1)

Quiz

140

(2)

Questions

140

(1)

Answers

141

(1)

Certification Practice

141

(1)

Exercises

142

(1)

Packages, Interfaces, and Other Class Features

143

(38)

Modifiers

144

(6)

Access Control for Methods and Variables

145

(5)

Static Variables and Methods

150

(2)

Final Classes, Methods, and Variables

152

(2)

Variables

153

(1)

Methods

153

(1)

Classes

154

(1)

Abstract Classes and Methods

154

(1)

Packages

155

(1)

Using Packages

156

(4)

Full Package and Class Names

156

(1)

The import Declaration

157

(2)

Class Name Conflicts

159

(1)

A Note About Classpath and Where Classes Are Located

159

(1)

Creating Your Own Packages

160

(2)

Picking a Package Name

160

(1)

Creating the Folder Structure

161

(1)

Adding a Class to a Package

161

(1)

Packages and Class Access Control

161

(1)

Interfaces

162

(3)

The Problem of Single Inheritance

162

(1)

Interfaces and Classes

163

(1)

Implementing and Using Interfaces

163

(1)

Implementing Multiple Interfaces

164

(1)

Other Uses of Interfaces

164

(1)

Creating and Extending Interfaces

165

(8)

New Interfaces

165

(1)

Methods Inside Interfaces

166

(1)

Extending Interfaces

166

(1)

Creating an Online Storefront

167

(6)

Inner Classes

173

(3)

Summary

176

(1)

Q&A

176

(1)

Quiz

177

(2)

Questions

177

(1)

Answers

177

(1)

Certification Practice

178

(1)

Exercises

179

(2)

Threads, Exceptions, and Assertions

181

(34)

Exceptions

182

(3)

Exception Classes

184

(1)

Managing Exceptions

185

(5)

Exception Consistency Checking

185

(1)

Protecting Code and Catching Exceptions

186

(2)

The finally Clause

188

(2)

Declaring Methods That Might Throw Exceptions

190

(4)

The throws Clause

191

(1)

Which Exceptions Should You Throw?

192

(1)

Passing On Exceptions

192

(2)

throws and Inheritance

194

(1)

Creating and Throwing Your Own Exceptions

194

(3)

Throwing Exceptions

195

(1)

Creating Your Own Exceptions

195

(1)

Combining throws, try, and throw

196

(1)

When and When Not to Use Exceptions

197

(2)

When to Use Exceptions

197

(1)

When Not to Use Exceptions

197

(1)

Bad Style Using Exceptions

198

(1)

Assertions

199

(3)

Threads

202

(7)

Writing a Threaded Program

202

(2)

A Threaded Application

204

(4)

Stopping a Thread

208

(1)

Summary

209

(1)

Q&A

210

(1)

Quiz

211

(1)

Questions

211

(1)

Answers

211

(1)

Certification Practice

212

(1)

Exercises

212

(3)

Week 2 The Java Class Library

215

(196)

Data Structures

217

(28)

Data Structures

217

(1)

Java Data Structures

218

(20)

Iterator

219

(2)

Bit Sets

221

(3)

Vectors

224

(3)

Looping Through Data Structures

227

(3)

Stacks

230

(1)

Map

231

(2)

Hashtables

233

(5)

Generics

238

(3)

Summary

241

(1)

Q&A

241

(1)

Quiz

242

(2)

Questions

242

(1)

Answers

242

(1)

Certification Practice

243

(1)

Exercises

244

(1)

Working with Swing

245

(26)

Creating an Application

246

(7)

Creating an Interface

247

(2)

Developing a Framework

249

(2)

Creating a Component

251

(1)

Adding Components to a Container

252

(1)

Working with Components

253

(12)

Image Icons

254

(2)

Labels

256

(1)

Text Fields

257

(1)

Text Areas

258

(1)

Scrolling Panes

259

(2)

Check Boxes and Radio Buttons

261

(2)

Combo Boxes

263

(2)

Lists

265

(1)

Summary

266

(1)

Q&A

267

(1)

Quiz

268

(2)

Questions

268

(1)

Answers

269

(1)

Certification Practice

269

(1)

Exercises

270

(1)

Building a Swing Interface

271

(28)

Swing Features

272

(23)

Setting the Look and Feel

272

(3)

Standard Dialog Boxes

275

(4)

Using Dialog Boxes

279

(3)

Sliders

282

(2)

Scroll Panes

284

(1)

Toolbars

285

(3)

Progress Bars

288

(2)

Menus

290

(4)

Tabbed Panes

294

(1)

Summary

295

(1)

Q&A

295

(1)

Quiz

296

(2)

Questions

296

(1)

Answers

297

(1)

Certification Practice

297

(1)

Exercises

298

(1)

Arranging Components on a User Interface

299

(30)

Basic Interface Layout

300

(8)

Laying Out an Interface

300

(1)

Flow Layout

301

(2)

Box Layout

303

(2)

Grid Layout

305

(2)

Border Layout

307

(1)

Mixing Layout Managers

308

(1)

Card Layout

309

(7)

Using Card Layout in an Application

311

(5)

Grid Bag Layout

316

(9)

Designing the Grid

319

(1)

Creating the Grid

320

(4)

Cell Padding and Insets

324

(1)

Summary

325

(1)

Q&A

325

(1)

Quiz

326

(2)

Questions

326

(1)

Answers

327

(1)

Certification Practice

327

(1)

Exercises

328

(1)

Responding to User Input

329

(22)

Event Listeners

329

(5)

Setting Up Components

330

(1)

Event-Handling Methods

331

(3)

Working with Methods

334

(13)

Action Events

334

(1)

Focus Events

335

(3)

Item Events

338

(1)

Key Events

339

(1)

Mouse Events

340

(1)

Mouse Motion Events

341

(4)

Window Events

345

(1)

Using Adapter Classes

346

(1)

Summary

347

(1)

Q&A

347

(1)

Quiz

348

(2)

Questions

348

(1)

Answers

349

(1)

Certification Practice

349

(1)

Exercises

350

(1)

Using Color, Fonts, and Graphics

351

(24)

The Graphics2D Class

351

(3)

The Graphics Coordinate System

353

(1)

Drawing Text

354

(5)

Improving Fonts and Graphics with Antialiasing

356

(1)

Finding Information About a Font

356

(3)

Color

359

(2)

Using Color Objects

359

(1)

Testing and Setting the Current Colors

360

(1)

Drawing Lines and Polygons

361

(10)

User and Device Coordinate Spaces

362

(1)

Specifying the Rendering Attributes

362

(3)

Creating Objects to Draw

365

(3)

Drawing Objects

368

(3)

Summary

371

(1)

Q&A

372

(1)

Quiz

372

(2)

Questions

372

(1)

Answers

373

(1)

Certification Practice

373

(1)

Exercises

374

(1)

Writing Java Applets and Java Web Start Applications

375

(36)

How Applets and Applications Are Different

376

(1)

Applet Security Restrictions

376

(2)

Choosing a Java Version

377

(1)

Creating Applets

378

(5)

Applet Methods

378

(3)

Writing an Applet

381

(2)

Including an Applet on a Web Page

383

(4)

The APPLET Tag

383

(2)

Loading an Applet

385

(2)

Putting Applets on the Web

387

(1)

Java Archives

387

(1)

Passing Parameters to Applets

388

(3)

Sun's HTML Converter

391

(1)

Java Web Start

392

(4)

Using Java Web Start

396

(10)

Creating a JNLP File

396

(5)

Supporting Web Start on a Server

401

(1)

Additional JNLP Elements

402

(2)

Running Applets

404

(2)

Summary

406

(1)

Q&A

406

(1)

Quiz

407

(2)

Questions

407

(1)

Answers

408

(1)

Certification Practice

408

(1)

Exercises

409

(2)

Week 3 Java Programming

411

(218)

Working with Input and Output

413

(28)

Introduction to Streams

414

(2)

Using a Stream

414

(1)

Filtering a Stream

415

(1)

Handling Exceptions

416

(1)

Byte Streams

416

(5)

File Streams

416

(5)

Filtering a Stream

421

(9)

Byte Filters

421

(9)

Character Streams

430

(4)

Reading Text Files

430

(3)

Writing Text Files

433

(1)

Files and Filename Filters

434

(3)

Summary

437

(1)

Q&A

437

(1)

Quiz

438

(2)

Questions

438

(1)

Answers

439

(1)

Certification Practice

439

(1)

Exercises

440

(1)

Serializing and Examining Objects

441

(28)

Object Serialization

442

(9)

Object Output Streams

443

(3)

Object Input Streams

446

(3)

Transient Variables

449

(1)

Checking an Object's Serialized Fields

450

(1)

Inspecting Classes and Methods with Reflection

451

(6)

Inspecting and Creating Classes

451

(2)

Working with Each Part of a Class

453

(1)

Inspecting a Class

454

(3)

Remote Method Invocation

457

(9)

RMI Architecture

457

(2)

Creating RMI Applications

459

(7)

Summary

466

(1)

Q&A

466

(1)

Quiz

467

(1)

Questions

467

(1)

Answers

467

(1)

Certification Practice

468

(1)

Exercises

468

(1)

Communicating Across the Internet

469

(32)

Networking in Java

470

(12)

Opening a Stream over the Net

470

(5)

Sockets

475

(4)

Socket Servers

479

(2)

Testing the Server

481

(1)

The java.nio Package

482

(14)

Buffers

483

(4)

Channels

487

(9)

Summary

496

(1)

Q&A

496

(1)

Quiz

497

(2)

Questions

497

(1)

Answers

498

(1)

Certification Practice

498

(1)

Exercises

499

(2)

JavaSound

501

(20)

JavaSound

501

(16)

MIDI Files

502

(1)

Playing a MIDI File

503

(5)

Sampled Audio Files

508

(3)

Manipulating Sound Files

511

(6)

Summary

517

(1)

Q&A

518

(1)

Quiz

518

(2)

Questions

518

(1)

Answers

519

(1)

Certification Practice

519

(1)

Exercises

520

(1)

Creating and Using JavaBeans

521

(22)

Reusable Software Components

522

(7)

Developing JavaBeans

523

(3)

Creating a Bean

526

(3)

Development Tools

529

(2)

JavaBeans Development Kit

530

(1)

Working with JavaBeans

531

(9)

Bean Containers

532

(1)

Placing a Bean

533

(1)

Adjusting a Bean's Properties

534

(2)

Creating Interactions Among Beans

536

(2)

Creating a JavaBeans Program

538

(1)

Working with Other Beans

539

(1)

Summary

540

(1)

Q&A

540

(1)

Quiz

541

(1)

Questions

541

(1)

Answers

541

(1)

Certification Practice

541

(1)

Exercises

542

(1)

Reading and Writing Data Using JDBC and XML

543

(42)

Java Database Connectivity

544

(19)

Database Drivers

545

(1)

The JDBC-ODBC Bridge

546

(1)

Connecting to an ODBC Data Source

547

(13)

JDBC Drivers

560

(3)

Using XML

563

(5)

Designing an XML Dialect

566

(2)

Processing XML with Java

568

(1)

Processing XML with XOM

568

(14)

Creating an XML Document

570

(3)

Modifying an XML Document

573

(4)

Formatting an XML Document

577

(2)

Evaluating XOM

579

(3)

Summary

582

(1)

Q&A

582

(1)

Quiz

583

(1)

Questions

583

(1)

Answers

583

(1)

Certification Practice

584

(1)

Exercises

584

(1)

Writing Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages

585

(44)

Using Servlets

586

(3)

Supporting Servlets

587

(2)

Developing Servlets

589

(13)

Using Cookies

595

(4)

Using Sessions

599

(3)

JavaServer Pages

602

(15)

Writing a JavaServer Page

604

(7)

Creating a Web Application

611

(6)

JSP Standard Tag Library

617

(8)

Summary

625

(1)

Q&A

625

(1)

Quiz

626

(2)

Questions

626

(1)

Answers

627

(1)

Certification Practice

627

(1)

Exercises

628

(1)

Appendixes

629

(2)

Appendix A Choosing Java

631

(12)

Java's Past, Present, and Future

632

(5)

Interactive Web Programming

632

(2)

Java Grew from a Little Oak

634

(1)

Versions of the Language

635

(2)

Java's Outlook

637

(1)

Why Choose Java

637

(4)

Java Is Object-Oriented

638

(1)

Java Is Easy to Learn

638

(1)

Java Is Platform Neutral

639

(2)

Summary

641

(2)

Appendix B Using the Java 2 Software Development Kit

643

(24)

Choosing a Java Development Tool

644

(4)

Installing the Software Development Kit

645

(3)

Configuring the Software Development Kit

648

(9)

Using a Command-Line Interface

649

(1)

Opening Folders in MS-DOS

650

(1)

Creating Folders in MS-DOS

651

(1)

Running Programs in MS-DOS

652

(1)

Correcting Configuration Errors

653

(4)

Using a Text Editor

657

(1)

Creating a Sample Program

658

(4)

Compiling and Running the Program in Windows

660

(2)

Setting Up the CLASSPATH Variable

662

(5)

Setting the CLASSPATH on Windows 98 or ME

662

(2)

Setting the Classpath on Windows NT, XP, 2000, or 2003

664

(2)

Troubleshooting Your Kit Installation

666

(1)

Appendix C Programming with the Java 2 Software Development Kit

667

(22)

An Overview of the SDK

668

(1)

The java Interpreter

669

(2)

The javac Compiler

671

(2)

The appletviewer Browser

673

(3)

The javadoc Documentation Tool

676

(4)

The jar Java File Archival Tool

680

(2)

The jdb Debugger

682

(4)

Debugging Applications

683

(2)

Debugging Applets

685

(1)

Advanced Debugging Commands

685

(1)

Using System Properties

686

(2)

Summary

688

(1)

Appendix D Using the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment

689

(10)

Choosing a Java Development Tool

690

(2)

Installing NetBeans

690

(2)

Creating a Sample Program

692

(7)

Compiling and Running the Program

697

(2)

Appendix E Writing Java 1.1 Applets

699

(22)

Java 1.1 Programming

700

(19)

Creating an Applet

700

(3)

Drawing Inside an Applet

703

(4)

Creating a Graphical User Interface

707

(7)

Handling User Events

714

(5)

Summary

719

(2)

Appendix F Creating Web Services with XML-RPC

721

(18)

Introduction to XML-RPC

722

(2)

Communicating with XML-RPC

724

(3)

Sending a Request

724

(2)

Responding to a Request

726

(1)

Choosing an XML-RPC Implementation

727

(2)

Using an XML-RPC Web Service

729

(3)

Creating an XML-RPC Web Service

732

(5)

Summary

737

(2)

Appendix G Regular Expressions

739

(14)

Introduction to Pattern Matching

740

(2)

The CharSequence Interface

741

(1)

Using Regular Expressions

742

(4)

Looking for a Match

742

(3)

Splitting Strings with Patterns

745

(1)

Patterns

746

(5)

Matches

748

(3)

Summary

751

(2)

Appendix H Where to Go from Here: Java Resources

753

(6)

Other Books to Consider

753

(1)

Sun's Official Java Site

754

(1)

Java 2 Version 1.5 Class Documentation

755

(1)

Other Java Web Sites

755

(1)

This Book's Official Site

755

(1)

Cafe au Lait

755

(1)

Workbench

755

(1)

InformIT

755

(1)

Java Review Service

756

(1)

JavaWorld Magazine

756

(1)

Gamelan: Earthweb's Java Directory

756

(1)

Java Newsgroups

756

(2)

Job Opportunities

758

(1)

Appendix I This Book's Web Site

759

(2)

Index

761

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