The hands-down, most complete and authoritative reference work on Java. Completely updated and expanded with new chapters to cover the latest release of the Java Development Kit 1.1. New technologies covered Java Beans - packaged, reusable code; updated AWT (Abstract Windows Toolkit) class information - for building GUI (Graphical User Interface) windows on every platform; updated Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API - connects databases of all vendors to Java programs; and RMI/CORBA Integration - Allows apps to travel and communicate acrosss multiple architectures using the CORBA open systems spec.