Core Java, Volume II--Advanced Features

by Gary Cornell, Gary Cornell

Completely revised and up-to-date coverage of

Multithreading—including the java.util.concurrent library, locks, condition objects, futures, thread pools, thread-safe collections, threads and Swing Collection classes—collections framework, concrete collections, and generic utility methods Annotations and metadata—using annotations to automate programming tasks, JDK™ 5.0 standard annotations, the apt tool for source-level annotation processing, and bytecode engineering Advanced Swing and AWT—lists, trees, tables, and other advanced components; image processing and printing JavaBeans™—including property editors, customizers, and long-term persistence

—DOM and SAX parsers, XPath, and XSL transformations

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.

Volume II includes new sections on annotations and other J2SE 5.0 enhancements, along with complete coverage of

Multithreading Distributed objects Databases JNDI and LDAP Advanced GUI components Native methods

Network programming Collection classes Advanced graphics Internationalization JavaBeans Annotations

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

1139 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)