Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional

by Jeff Friesen

Beginning Java SE 6 by Sing Li et al should be the first beginning level tutorial on the new Java SE 6 and is ideal for learning the new core Java Standard Edition SE 6 platform Each chapter in the book introduces a particular API area discusses the APIs and provides a hands on example showing its use Each chapter is independent of the other and sharply focuses on one API area It is a fun highly visual book with many chapters on GUI graphics and gaming Beginning Java SE 6 Platform From Novice to Professionalsteers you through the maze of Java Standard Edition SE 6 features The first chapter sets the stage by introducing Java SE 6 in terms of its name change themes an overview and a sampling of new features It also briefly discusses the first two Java SE 6 updates The remaining nine chapters organize features into the following categories core libraries GUI toolkits AWT GUI toolkits Swing internationalization Java Database Connectivity monitoring and management networking scripting and security and web services While exploring these chapters you will encounter a variety of useful and interesting topics introducing a new locale with its own currency creating a new JConsole plug in creating a scripted JEditorPane component invoking and communicating with JavaFX Script and JRuby scripts from a Java application that interacts with the Scripting API signing an arbitrary XML document and validating a signed document s XML signature and accessing an existing web service are examples With a few exceptions each of chapters 2 through 10 alphabetically organizes its topics for convenient access Furthermore all 10 chapters end with a Test Your Understanding section that provides questions and exercises to help you reinforce your understanding of what you have read Additional features are covered in the first three appendices The first appendix introduces you to annotation types for annotation processors Common Annotations 1 0 a

Genres: Programming

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

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