Core Java, Vol. 2: Advanced Features, 8th Edition

Core Java, Vol. 2: Advanced Features, 8th Edition

The revised edition of the classic Core Javaâ„¢, Volume II–Advanced Features, covers advanced user-interface programming and the enterprise features of the Java SE 6 platform. Like Volume I (which covers the core language and library features), this volume has been updated for Java SE 6 and new coverage is highlighted throughout. All sample programs have been carefully crafted to illustrate the latest programming techniques, displaying best-practices solutions to the types of real-world problems professional developers encounter.

Volume II includes new sections on the StAX API, JDBC 4, compiler API, scripting framework, splash screen and tray APIs, and many other Java SE 6 enhancements. In this book, the authors focus on the more advanced features of the Java language, including complete coverage of

• Streams and Files
• Networking
• Database programming
• XML
• JNDI and LDAP
• Internationalization
• Advanced GUI components
• Java 2D and advanced AWT
• JavaBeans
• Security
• RMI and Web services
• Collections
• Annotations
• Native methods

For thorough coverage of Java fundamentals–including interfaces and inner classes, GUI programming with Swing, exception handling, generics, collections, and concurrency–look for the eighth edition of Core Javaâ„¢, Volume I–Fundamentals (ISBN: 978-0-13-235476-9).

Core Java(TM), Volume I--Fundamentals (8th Edition)

Core Java(TM), Volume I--Fundamentals (8th Edition)

This revised edition of the classic Core Javaâ„¢, Volume I–Fundamentals, is the definitive guide to Java for serious programmers who want to put Java to work on real projects.

Fully updated for the new Java SE 6 platform, this no-nonsense tutorial and reliable reference illuminates the most important language and library features with thoroughly tested real-world examples. The example programs have been carefully crafted to be easy to understand as well as useful in practice, so you can rely on them as an outstanding starting point for your own code.

Volume I is designed to quickly bring you up to speed on what’s new in Java SE 6 and to help you make the transition as efficiently as possible, whether you’re upgrading from an earlier version of Java or migrating from another language. The authors concentrate on the fundamental concepts of the Java language, along with the basics of user-interface programming. You’ll find detailed, insightful coverage of

• Java fundamentals
• Object-oriented programming
• Interfaces and inner classes
• Reflection and proxies
• The event listener model
• GUI programming with Swing
• Packaging applications
• Exception handling
• Logging and debugging
• Generic programming
• The collections framework
• Concurrency

For detailed coverage of XML processing, networking, databases, internationalization, security, advanced AWT/Swing, and other advanced features, look for the forthcoming eighth edition of Core Java™, Volume II—Advanced Features (ISBN: 978-0-13-235479-0).

Core Java Data Objects

Core Java Data Objects


The experienced Java developer's guide to persistence with JDO!

Master JDO, the breakthrough technology for persistenting Java objects!

Java Data Objects (JDO) streamlines development by providing Java-centric mechanisms for making objects persistent, and standard APIs for connecting application code with underlying persistent datastores. Core Java Data Objects is the definitive, comprehensive guide to JDO persistence for every experienced Java developer.

Using realistic code examples, this book's expert authors cover creating, reading, updating, and deleting persistent objects; object lifecycles and state transitions; JDO classes and APIs; queries, architecture, security, and much more. They show how to integrate JDO with EJB, JTA, JCA, and other J2EE technologies; and introduce best practices for using JDO in both standalone programs and J2EE components.

If you want to spend more time solving business problems and less time worrying about persistence, you need JDO. And you need the one book that'll help you make the most of JDO: Core Java Data Objects.

Core Java Data Objects delivers:

• Practical examples showing how JDO can be applied to existing applications
  
• Powerful insights for using JDO to architect new systems more effectively
  
• Step-by-step guidance for integrating JDO with other J2EE technologies
  
• Best practices for using JDO in real-world business environments

Core Java 2, Volume II: Advanced Features, Seventh Edition

Core Java 2, Volume II: Advanced Features, Seventh Edition


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.

Core Java 2, Volume I:Fundamentals, Seventh Edition

Core Java 2, Volume I:Fundamentals, Seventh Edition


Completely revised and up-to-date coverage of

• Generic programming, restrictions and limitations, type bounds, wilcard types, and generic reflection
  
• Swing GUI development, including input validation and other enhancements
  
• Exception handling and debugging, including chained exceptions, stack frames, assertions, and logging
  
• Streams and files, the new I/O API, memory-mapped files, file locking, and character set encoders/decoders
  
• Regular expressions using the powerful java.util.regex package
  
• Inner classes, reflection, and dynamic proxies
  
• Application packaging and the Preferences API
  

The seventh edition of Core Java 2, Volume I, covers the fundamentals of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SEâ„¢). A no-nonsense tutorial and reliable reference, this book features thoroughly tested real-world examples. The most important language and library features are demonstrated with deliberately simple sample programs, but they aren' fake and they don' cut corners. More importantly, all of the programs have been updated for J2SE 5.0 and should make good starting points for your own code. You won' find any toy examples here. This is a book for programmers who want to write real code to solve real problems.

Volume I concentrates on the fundamental concepts of the Java language, along with the basics of user-interface programming and provides detailed coverage of

• Object-oriented programming
  
• Reflection and proxies
  
• Interfaces and inner classes
  
• The event listener model
  
• Graphical user-interface design with the Swing UI toolkit
  
• Exception handling
  
• Stream input/output and object serialization
  
• Generic programming
  

For the same real-world treatment of enterprise features and advanced user-interface programming, look for the forthcoming new edition of Core Java 2, Volume IIâ Advanced Features.

It includes new sections on metadata and other J2SE 5.0 enhancements along with complete coverage of:

• Multithreading
  
• Distributed objects
  
• Databases
  
• Advanced GUI components
  
• Native methods
  
• XML Processing
  
• Network programming
  
• Collection classes
  
• Advanced graphics
  
• Internationalization
  
• JavaBeans

Constructing Intelligent Agents With Java: A Programmer's Guide to Smarter Applications

Constructing Intelligent Agents With Java: A Programmer's Guide to Smarter Applications


Intelligent Agents with JavaTM

A Programmer's Guide to Smarter Applications

Add Artificial Intelligence to your Java applications Learn to design and implement agent-based reasoning, modeling, and learning Build your own personal assistants, Web agents, e-commerce agents, and multiagent systems.

Learn how to create intelligent agents that can automate, mediate, and administer basic business functions.

Java makes it easier than ever for programmers to build complex agents that reason and learn. In this book, enterprise programming experts Joe and Jennifer Bigus show you how to take advantage of Java's advanced features to differentiate your applications and build the smartest high-powered applications possible.

The authors explain the principles of Al program design using Java's object-oriented features and present the essential AI algorithms used to develop agents that reason, model, and learn to adapt to the world around them. They then show how to apply these algorithms and techniques in practical "real-world" distributed computing applications. They develop an intelligent agent architecture and use it to construct several agent-enhanced programs, including a PC management agent, an adaptive Internet news reader that filters articles based on user preferences, and an electronic marketplace application where agents do the buying and selling.

Concurrent Programming in Java(TM) Design Principles and Pattern (2nd Edition)

Concurrent Programming in Java(TM) Design Principles and Pattern (2nd Edition)


Concurrent Programming in Java, 2nd Edition surveys a wide field of research in parallelism and concurrency and shows how to do more with multithreading in Java with dozens of patterns and design tips. Written for the advanced Java developer, this book offers a comprehensive tour of leading-edge thinking about parallel coding processes.

Within the dozens of techniques and tips offered here, this book accomplishes at least two goals. First, it shows how concurrency is implemented by default within Java, with material on how built-in features (like the synchronized keyword and its memory model) can be expected to perform when dealing with multiple threads. Naturally, Java threads themselves are also covered, including priorities, scheduling, and the like.

Much of this book looks at ways to improve performance of concurrent code beyond the simple default strategies. After defining criteria for measuring concurrent code (such as safety and "liveness," a measure of running live threads effectively), the book presents dozens of techniques for letting threads work together safely. For the working Java programmer, coverage of patterns that have been implemented in the downloadable java.concurrency package will be the most immediately useful. (Within this nearly encyclopedic survey, short code snippets are used for every pattern and concept.)

Though theoretical at times, this book offers plenty of ideas and sample code to get you started thinking of ways to improve multithreaded code.

Impressively comprehensive, Concurrent Programming in Java offers a veritable bible of techniques for doing two things at once with threads in Java. It's a worthwhile guide to the state-of-the-art strategies for improving the performance of your Java threads. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Threads and concurrency in Java, design considerations (safety, liveness, and performance), Before/After Patterns, layering, adapters, immutability and synchronization, deadlock, resource ordering, the Java Memory Model and concurrency, using the java.concurrency package, confinement, refactoring for concurrency, mutexes, read-write locks, recovering from failure, notifications, semaphores, latches, exchanges, transactions, one-way messages, worker threads, polling and event-driven I/O, parallelism techniques (fork/join, computation trees, and barriers), Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP).