Illustrated Common Java Cookbook: Books

by Susan Shaw

Chapter 1, Supplements to the Java 2 Platform
This chapter introduces Commons Lang. Automation of toString( ), working with arrays, formatting and rounding dates, working with enumerations, generating identifiers, and measuring time are some of the topics discussed in this chapter. This chapter also covers the generation of unique identifiers with Commons ID.
Chapter 2, Manipulating Text
While Java does not have the extensive text manipulation capabilities of a scripting language like Perl, Commons Lang's StringUtils has a number of utility methods that can be used to manipulate text. This chapter deals with StringUtils, WordUtils, and Commons Codec.
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Preface
Chapter 3, JavaBeans
Beans appear throughout Java; from Apache Struts to Hibernate, beans are a unit of information in an object model.
This chapter introduces Commons BeanUtils, one of the most widely used components from Apache Commons.
Chapter 4, Functors
Functors are a fundamental way of thinking about programming as a set of functional objects. Commons Collections introduced predicates, transformers, and closures, and functors, which can be used to model control structures and loops. This chapter demonstrates how one would apply functors to any program.
Chapter 5, Collections
Iterators, filtering with predicates, buffers, queues, bidirectional maps, type-safe collections, constraining collections, lazy maps, and set operations are a few of the topics introduced in this chapter. This chapter deals with Comm

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Published October 28, 2020

About the author

I was born in a log cabin in Illinois - no that wasn't me!

I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grew up outside of Philadelphia with two parents, along with a wild assortment of brothers and sisters and cats and dogs. I did things like take music lessons and play relievo or baseball in the sideyard with the neighborhood kids. Went to school, which I really hated, but somehow managed to get through anyway. I was smart, but, boy, you couldn't tell it by my grades.

Well, maybe I didn't do my homework, but I read. If it didn't move, I read it. Chances are, I wrote about it, too, in the diary I kept all through my childhood. I've heard that that's called taking notes.

Eventually, despite engaging in various activities called play that periodically involved knocking myself out, I grew up. This much amazed my grandmother who said I lived a charmed life.

After graduating from Radnor High School, I attended Temple University, graduating with a music education degree. During my college years, I met my husband, a young man named John with a cute smile and a wonderful sense of humor. I married him quick before he had a chance to get away. Ah, young love! Since that time, we've had one adventure after another together, raising children, one daughter and two sons, and our love is still young. Despite John's gray hair, he still looks twenty years old to me.

What do I do when I'm not writing? Visit friends, ride my bike, sometimes with John, sometimes not. Hiking. I love to attend plays, too. Some of my recent favorites: Doubt, The Drowsy Chaperone, Eggs.