Core Java, Volume II--Advanced Features

by Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell

The revised edition of the classic " Core Java(TM), 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 Java(TM), Volume I-Fundamentals "(ISBN: 978-0-13-235476-9).

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Reference, Nonfiction, Software, Technical, Engineering

1056 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 27, 1999

Reviews

[فاروق الفرشيشي · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I started learning Java, I was searching for a book that offers a high level of details, but in the same time, considers the fact that I'm starting from the bottom.
Such a book would talk about general features at first hand, makes me a simple Java user, and ready to attack advanced features to master the language and all of the SE.
Core Java, offers more than this. Examples compilation in a manner that you can do them as training labs, before you see the code/solution, which is very efficient since learning is also about applying, mainly when you're still a beginner.

[Tytka na książki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Niedawno zdałem sobie sprawę, że książka programistyczna, by była dobra, musi być napisana zwięźle, ale też i ciekawie i to wszystko, o zgrozo, musi być opakowane w czytelną, ramową formę. Niestety w tej książce zabrakło tych ciekawych przykładów. Częściowo dlatego, że jest to wznowienie, które jest uaktualniane co parę lat, a większość treści jest już bardzo, bardzo stara. Dodatkowo dokładne omówienie APi poszczególnych bibliotek nie pomaga w przetrwaniu przez to ponad 1000 stronicowe dzieło.

Na uwagę zasługuje pierwszy i ostatni rozdział - o strumieniach i o metodach macierzystych. Cały czas szukam lepszej książki ze świata javy, a przeczytałem ich już wcale nie tak mało.

[Cameron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book. I guess it is about as good as you can get while trying to shove several so called advanced topics into one book. This is still more on the api and rules side as opposed to example of good use cases to use things like custom ClassLoaders etc.

[Nivas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great textbook for advanced features

[Marty Ross · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty dull, and I'm glad it's over.

[Waszak · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good but nothing about Spring or Hibernate.

[Sergey Pereverzov · Rating 4 out of 5]

generally good

Good book, but it is overfocused on the legacy staff like Applets, UI, etc. Good for newbies as well, explains base computer science principles

[Kapil]

gud

[Alex Ott · Rating 3 out of 5]

Same as volume 1 - too long with many not necessary details

[Piush Kumar]

Not much about JDBC. :-(

[Frank Palardy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Goes with the first book.

[Piotr Müller · Rating 3 out of 5]

Generally good, but lot of specific/legacy solutions (swing, RMI)