Core Java 2, Volume I: Fundamentals (6th Edition)

The experienced developer's guide to Java programming-now fully updated for JDK 1.4.

• Concentrates on the fundamental concepts of the Java language.
• Features a completely new chapter that summarizes key changes in the 1.4 Release that will make the transition from 1.3 painless!
• New review questions and practice exercises.

Core Java 2, Volume I continues to deliver the real-world guidance developers need to build sophisticated, production-quality Java applications. Updated to cover new features and functions in Release 1.4 of J2SE, it delivers 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 and stream input/output and object serialization. For full coverage of J2SE 1.4 enterprise features and advanced user-interface programming, Core Java 2, Vol. II (0130927384) is the ideal companion and a complete resource for the latest on multithreading, network programming, distributed objects, collection classes, databases, advanced graphics, advanced GUI components, internationalization, native methods, and JavaBeans.