The Java™ Developers Almanac: Enterprise Edition - Softcover

Chan, Patrick

9780201700428: The Java™ Developers Almanac: Enterprise Edition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201700425 ISBN 13: 9780201700428

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2020

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Developers worldwide recognize the Java Developers Almanac as an extraordinary resource for both real-world code and practical solutions. Now, renowned Java author (and original Java lead developer) Patrick Chan has created a complementary almanac for the Java 2 Enterprise Edition, the part of the Java 2 platform devoted to the enterprise. This masterful, 1100-page guide delivers in-depth information and insight targeted at enterprise developers -- the fastest-growing segment of the Java marketplace. It focuses on the most asked about Java technologies -- Enterprise JavaBeans, JavaServer Pages, and Java Servlets -- the key APIs and skills developers need to achieve portability, scalability, security, and legacy integration in business-critical applications. Like previous Java Developers Almanacs, this book is organized into three major sections, class tables, key topics, and cross-references -- a format proven to help developers find what they're looking for quickly. Most important, there are over 250 first-rate code examples -- exactly what developers have come to expect from Patrick Chan and his Almanacs.-- For enterprise developers -- the fastest-growing Java market!-- Enterprise JavaBeans, servlets, and JavaServer Pages: 250+ expert code examples-- Powerful techniques for enhancing portability, scalability, and legacy integration, from world-renowned Java author Patrick Chan!

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Review

While Java started out simply enough with relatively few objects and APIs, today's Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE) bundles over 2,100 classes. The Java Developer's Almanac provides a truly valuable reference to nearly all the classes and APIs in standard Java. This "white pages" for Java puts all classes and APIs at your fingertips, along with short samples illustrating essential programming tasks.

It's a compliment to say that this title resembles a telephone book. With over 1,000 pages (and printed on similar grade of paper), like a phonebook, The Java Developers Almanac is organised alphabetically. Early sections look at Java 2 classes by package, such as graphics (including Java 2D), file I/O, network programming, AWT and Swing. Early sections include several hundred short code excerpts, which provide key programming solutions.

The heart of this text is an A-to-Z compendium of over 2,100 Java classes and a whopping 24,000 methods and properties. Readers get a listing of what's in each class, along with prototype and arguments. As an "almanac" there is no room for explaining what each method does, but by using a clever set of symbols, each listing provides the details of each method (such as which ones are "final," "static" and the like), plus the version of Java in which each method first appeared (JDK 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3). These reference sections set a new standard of clarity for documenting classes. (Method and property names are aligned in the middle of the page regardless of return type, a typographic convention that makes it easy to find what you need quickly.)

Later sections provide useful references that list the changes from Java 1.0 through 1.3, as well as PersonalJava, the Java Native Interface (JNI), plus some of the details of the Java Virtual Machine (with a listing of byte codes). An innovative index cross-references all methods and classes (including where objects are used as parameters and return values). Truly encyclopaedic and remarkably well organised, this book is a virtual must-have resource for any serious Java developer. --Richard Dragan, Amazon.com

Topics covered:

Comprehensive reference to Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE) packages, classes and APIs (including 2,100 classes and 24,000 methods), sample code for common programming tasks, working with graphics and images (including Java 2D), playing audio and MIDI files, Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) and Swing components, JDBC database basics, directory programming with JNDI/LDAP, file system and file I/O, using the Java reflection APIs, basic socket, URL and networking in Java.
RMI working with Strings, arrays and collections.
Unicode, locale and internationalisation support
documented changes in JDK 1.0 through JDK 1.3, the Java Native Interface (JNI), classes included in PersonalJava, and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) byte codes.

From the Back Cover

"I love this book. Its dense condensation of the details a developer needs makes it the one book I pull out over and over again."

―James Gosling, Fellow and Vice President, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and inventor of the Java™ programming language

"This reminds me of the catalogs of integrated circuits that we use to build hardware systems, and shows how far and fast Java™ technology has come in having a library of incredibly useful software components. An indispensable desk reference!"

―Bill Joy, co-founder, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

"I think this book is, quite simply, a stroke genius. I've been lamenting the stack of books on Java™ technology I've had to pore over when all I needed was a detail about some method or package. The Almanac is the one-stop shop I was unconsciously waiting for."

―John Vlissides, IBM TJ Watson, and co-author of the best-selling book Design Patterns
Quoted from his keynote at JavaOneSM

The Java™ Developers Almanac 2000 is the most up-to-date and complete quick reference for the Java Class Libraries―JDK™1.0, 1.1, and J2SE™ v1.2, v1.3. (Due to space constraints, the javax.swing.plaf. packages are not included.) No other quick reference includes as much information in a single convenient volume. Information from 2,100 classes and 24,000 members is carefully formatted and arranged for easy lookup.

In this book you will find:

More than 300 examplets™ that succinctly demonstrate the most common operations for a package
Complete member listings of every class (including inherited members!)
Class inheritance hierarchies for every package
An extensive cross-reference section
Detailed analysis of API changes for each major release
Quick reference information for the language, the virtual machine, Java Native Interface, PersonalJava™ platform, and more

No matter what level programmer you are, you will find this book an invaluable tool for everyday development.

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