Java in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, 4th Edition (The Java Series) - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

Java just keeps growing, adding features, functionality, complexity, and tempting developers to growl with frustration. The new 1.4 release of Java 2 Standard edition increases the size of the platform by 50%, to 2757 classes in 135 packages. How are you going to figure out what this means for your applications? As always, Java in a Nutshell has the answers. The new 4th edition still contains an accelerated introduction to the Java programming language and its key APIs so you can start writing code right away. And with more than 250 new pages, author David Flanagan quickly brings you up to speed on new features that come with version 1.4:

• High-performance NIO API
• Support for pattern matching with regular expressions
• A logging API
• A user preferences API
• New Collections classes
• An XML-based persistence mechanism for Java Beans
• Support for XML parsing using both the DOM and SAX APIs
• User authentication with the JAAS API
• Support for secure network connections using the SSL protocol
• Support for cryptography

Biografía del autor

David Flanagan is a computer programmer who spends most of his time writing about JavaScript and Java. His books with O'Reilly include Java in a Nutshell, Java Examples in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and JavaScript Pocket Reference. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife and son in the U.S. Pacific Northwest bewteen the cities of Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. David has a simple website at http://www.davidflanagan.com.