Core Java, Volume II--Advanced Features, 9th Edition

Now completely revised for the highly-anticipated Java SE 7 platform, the classic Core Java™, Volume II–Advanced Features covers today's best practice techniques for advanced user interface programming, enterprise Java development, and Rich Internet Application (RIA) programming with modern Java. Like Volume I (which covers the core language and library features), this volume has been extensively updated for Java SE 7; all new coverage is highlighted throughout. All sample programs are carefully crafted to illustrate the latest programming techniques, display best-practice solutions to real-world problems faced by professional developers, and to be exceptionally interesting. This edition also reflects dramatic recent changes to the programming landscape, including the rapid emergence of RIA and the growing dominance of web development. Experienced Java developers will find practical solutions and industrial-strength code examples to help them take full advantage of these and other Java's facilities: streams, files, networking, database programming, XML, JNDI, LDAP, advanced GUIs, security, web services, internationalization, collections, annotations, native methods, and more. As in all editions of Core Java, this book starts at the very beginning of every topic, walking readers through increasingly difficult programs, and illuminating every topic with well-designed illustrations and screen shots. Boilerplate and API tables are placed on the side, enabling readers to focus on the concept at hand. For all experienced Java developers working in any environment on any platform.

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xix

 

Chapter 1: Streams and Files 1

1.1 Streams 2

1.2 Text Input and Output 13

1.3 Reading and Writing Binary Data 25

1.4 ZIP Archives 33

1.5 Object Streams and Serialization 36

1.6 Working with Files 57

1.7 Memory-Mapped Files 68

1.8 Regular Expressions 81

 

Chapter 2: XML 93

2.1 Introducing XML 94

2.2 Parsing an XML Document 99

2.3 Validating XML Documents 113

2.4 Locating Information with XPath 140

2.5 Using Namespaces 147

2.6 Streaming Parsers 150

2.7 Generating XML Documents 159

2.8 XSL Transformations 173

 

Chapter 3: Networking 185

3.1 Connecting to a Server 185

3.2 Implementing Servers 194

3.3 Interruptible Sockets 202

3.4 Getting Web Data 210

3.5 Sending E-Mail 230

 

Chapter 4: Database Programming 235

4.1 The Design of JDBC 236

4.2 The Structured Query Language 239

4.3 JDBC Configuration 245

4.4 Executing SQL Statements 252

4.5 Query Execution 262

4.6 Scrollable and Updatable Result Sets 274

4.7 Row Sets 281

4.8 Metadata 286

4.9 Transactions 296

4.10 Connection Management in Web and Enterprise Applications 302

 

Chapter 5: Internationalization 305

5.1 Locales 306

5.2 Number Formats 311

5.3 Date and Time 319

5.4 Collation 328

5.5 Message Formatting 336

5.6 Text Files and Character Sets 340

5.7 Resource Bundles 341

5.8 A Complete Example 346

 

Chapter 6: Advanced Swing 363

6.1 Lists 364

6.2 Tables 381

6.3 Trees 420

6.4 Text Components 462

6.5 Progress Indicators 501

6.6 Component Organizers and Decorators 514

 

Chapter 7: Advanced AWT 549

7.1 The Rendering Pipeline 550

7.2 Shapes 553

7.3 Areas 570

7.4 Strokes 572

7.5 Paint 581

7.6 Coordinate Transformations 583

7.7 Clipping 589

7.8 Transparency and Composition 592

7.9 Rendering Hints 601

7.10 Readers and Writers for Images 608

7.11 Image Manipulation 619

7.12 Printing 636

7.13 The Clipboard 672

7.14 Drag and Drop 689

7.15 Platform Integration 707

 

Chapter 8: JavaBeans Components 725

8.1 Why Beans? 726

8.2 The Bean-Writing Process 728

8.3 Using Beans to Build an Application 731

8.4 Naming Patterns for Bean Properties and Events 740

8.5 Bean Property Types 743

8.6 BeanInfo Classes 754

8.7 Property Editors 758

8.8 Customizers 770

8.9 JavaBeans Persistence 779

 

Chapter 9: Security 803

9.1 Class Loaders 804

9.2 Bytecode Verification 816

9.3 Security Managers and Permissions 821

9.4 User Authentication 842

9.5 Digital Signatures 858

9.6 Code Signing 873

9.7 Encryption 880

 

Chapter 10: Scripting, Compiling, and Annotation Processing 893

10.1 Scripting for the Java Platform 894

10.2 The Compiler API 907

10.3 Using Annotations 919

10.4 Annotation Syntax 926

10.5 Standard Annotations 931

10.6 Source-Level Annotation Processing 935

10.7 Bytecode Engineering 943

 

Chapter 11: Distributed Objects 953

11.1 The Roles of Client and Server 954

11.2 Remote Method Calls 957

11.3 The RMI Programming Model 959

11.4 Parameters and Return Values in Remote Methods 970

11.5 Remote Object Activation 980

 

Chapter 12: Native Methods 989

12.1 Calling a C Function from a Java Program 990

12.2 Numeric Parameters and Return Values 997

12.3 String Parameters 999

12.4 Accessing Fields 1005

12.5 Encoding Signatures 1010

12.6 Calling Java Methods 1012

12.7 Accessing Array Elements 1019

12.8 Handling Errors 1023

12.9 Using the Invocation API 1028

12.10 A Complete Example: Accessing the Windows Registry 1034

 

Index 1051