Core Java 2 Advanced Features Volume 2 5TH Edition

Completely revised and up-to-date coverage of

• Multithreadingincluding the java.util.concurrent library, locks, condition objects, futures, thread pools, thread-safe collections, threads and Swing
• Collection classescollections framework, concrete collections, and generic utility methods
• Annotations and metadatausing annotations to automate programming tasks, JDK™ 5.0 standard annotations, the apt tool for source-level annotation processing, and bytecode engineering
• Advanced Swing and AWTlists, trees, tables, and other advanced components; image processing and printing
• JavaBeans™including property editors, customizers, and long-term persistence
• XMLDOM and SAX parsers, XPath, and XSL transformations

The seventh edition of Core Java™ 2, Volume II, covers advanced user-interface programming and the enterprise features of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE™). Like Volume I (which covers the most important language and library features), this book has been completely updated and revised for J2SE 5.0. All of the sample programs have been updated and carefully crafted to illustrate practical solutions to the type of real-world problems professional developers encounter.

Volume II includes new sections on annotations and other J2SE 5.0 enhancements, along with complete coverage of

• Multithreading
• Distributed objects
• Databases
• JNDI and LDAP
• Advanced GUI components
• Native methods
• XML processing
• Network programming
• Collection classes
• Advanced graphics
• Internationalization
• JavaBeans
• Annotations

This second in a two-volume series is intended for programmers familiar with Java who want to explore more advanced topics for professional software development. It covers multithreading, the collections framework, the networking API, the database connectivity API, complex tree and table components of Swing, the 2D API for drawing, writing JavaBeans other programmers can use, and internationalization. The CD-ROM contains Forte for Java and Java 2 SDK.
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JDK 1.3, Core Java 2, Volume 2 — Advanced Features offers discussions of XML and servlets, plus revised coverage of a range of advanced features — from collections to native methods, security to advanced Swing programming.

One CD-ROM in pocket attached to inside back cover.
Includes index.

Cay S. Horstmann is a professor of computer science at San Jose State University. Previously he was vice president and chief technology officer of Preview Systems Inc. and a consultant on C++, Java, and Internet programming for major corporations, universities, and organizations.

Gary Cornell has written or cowritten more than twenty popular computer books. He has a Ph.D. from Brown University and has been a visiting scientist at IBM Watson Laboratories, as well as a professor at the University of Connecticut.