Java Black Book : The Java Book Programmers Turn to First

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ISBN: 9781576105313

ISBN-10: 1576105318

ISBN-13: 9781576105313

Edition: 1st 2000

Authors: Steven Holzner

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List price: $49.99
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Coriolis Group, LLC, The
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1200
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 2.50" tall
Weight: 4.290
Language: English

Introduction	p. xxvii
Essential Java	p. 1
All About Java	p. 3
Getting And Installing Java	p. 11
What Was New In Java 1.1?	p. 12
What Was Deprecated In Java 1.1?	p. 14
What's New In Java 2?	p. 14
What Was Deprecated In Java 2?	p. 17
Writing Code: Creating Code Files	p. 17
Writing Code: Knowing Java's Reserved Words	p. 18
Writing Code: Creating An Application	p. 20
Compiling Code	p. 24
Cross-Compilation Options	p. 27
Compiling Code: Using Command-Line Options	p. 25
Compiling Code: Checking For Deprecated Methods	p. 27
Running Code	p. 28
Running Code: Using Command-Line Options	p. 31
Basic Skills: Commenting Your Code	p. 33
Basic Skills: Importing Java Packages And Classes	p. 35
Basic Skills: Finding Java Classes With Classpath	p. 38
Creating Applets	p. 41
Running Applets	p. 43
Creating Windowed Applications	p. 44
Running Windowed Applications	p. 46
Designing Java Programs	p. 46
Distributing Your Java Program	p. 49
Variables, Arrays, And Strings	p. 51
Variables	p. 53
Arrays	p. 56
Strings	p. 59
What Data Types Are Available?	p. 61
Creating Integer Literals	p. 62
Creating Floating-Point Literals	p. 64
Creating Boolean Literals	p. 65
Creating Character Literals	p. 66
Creating String Literals	p. 67
Declaring Integer Variables	p. 68
Declaring Floating-Point Variables	p. 69
Declaring Character Variables	p. 70
Declaring Boolean Variables	p. 72
Initializing Variables	p. 73
Converting Between Data Types	p. 75
Declaring One-dimensional Arrays	p. 79
Creating One-dimensional Arrays	p. 80
Initializing One-dimensional Arrays	p. 81
Declaring Multidimensional Arrays	p. 81
Creating Multidimensional Arrays	p. 82
Initializing Multidimensional Arrays	p. 85
Creating Irregular Multidimensional Arrays	p. 86
Getting An Array's Length	p. 86
The String Class	p. 87
Creating Strings	p. 92
Getting String Length	p. 95
Concatenating Strings	p. 95
Getting Characters And Substrings	p. 96
Searching For And Replacing Strings	p. 98
Changing Case In Strings	p. 99
Formatting Numbers In Strings	p. 100
The StringBuffer Class	p. 101
Creating StringBuffers	p. 101
Getting And Setting StringBuffer Lengths And Capacities	p. 105
Setting Characters In StringBuffers	p. 106
Appending And Inserting Using StringBuffers	p. 106
Deleting Text In StringBuffers	p. 107
Replacing Text In StringBuffers	p. 108
Operators, Conditionals, And Loops	p. 109
Operators	p. 110
Conditionals	p. 112
Loops	p. 113
Operator Precedence	p. 116
Incrementing And Decrementing: ++ And --	p. 117
Unary Not: And!	p. 120
Multiplication And Division: * And/	p. 121
Modulus: %	p. 122
Addition And Subtraction: + And -	p. 122
Shift Operators: ]], ]]], And [[	p. 123
Relational Operators: ], ]=, [, [=, ==, And !=	p. 124
Bitwise And Bitwise Logical And, Xor, And Or: and, ^, And I	p. 125
Logical andand And II	p. 128
The If-Then-Else Operator: ?:	p. 130
Assignment Operators: = And [operator]=	p. 131
Using The Math Class	p. 133
Comparing Strings	p. 135
The if Statement	p. 136
The switch Statement	p. 139
The while Loop	p. 142
The do-while Loop	p. 145
The for Loop	p. 146
Nested Loops	p. 150
Using The break Statement	p. 151
Using The continue Statement	p. 152
Object-Oriented Programming	p. 155
Classes	p. 158
Objects	p. 159
Data Members	p. 159
Methods	p. 160
Inheritance	p. 161
Declaring And Creating Objects	p. 163
Declaring And Defining Classes	p. 167
Creating Instance Variables	p. 170
Setting Variable Access	p. 171
Creating Class Variables	p. 173
Creating Methods	p. 175
Setting Method Access	p. 176
Passing Parameters To Methods	p. 178
Command-line Arguments Passed To main	p. 180
Returning Values From Methods	p. 181
Creating Class Methods	p. 183
Creating Data Access Methods	p. 184
Creating Constructors	p. 186
Passing Parameters To Constructors	p. 187
A Full Class Example	p. 188
Understanding Variable Scope	p. 191
Using Recursion	p. 192
Garbage Collection And Memory Management	p. 194
Garbage Collection And The finalize Method	p. 196
Overloading Methods	p. 197
Overloading Constructors	p. 199
Passing Objects To Methods	p. 201
Passing Arrays To Methods	p. 203
Using The this Keyword	p. 205
Returning Objects From Methods	p. 206
Returning Arrays From Methods	p. 207
Inheritance, Inner Classes, And Interfaces	p. 209
Why Inheritance?	p. 211
Why Interfaces?	p. 212
Why Inner Classes?	p. 213
Creating A Subclass	p. 215
Access Specifiers And Inheritance	p. 216
Calling Superclass Constructors	p. 219
Creating Multilevel Inheritance	p. 224
Handling Multilevel Constructors	p. 226
Overriding Methods	p. 228
Accessing Overridden Members	p. 229
Using Superclass Variables With Subclassed Objects	p. 231
Dynamic Method Dispatch (Runtime Polymorphism)	p. 234
Creating Abstract Classes	p. 237
Stopping Overriding With final	p. 238
Stopping Inheritance With final	p. 240
Creating Constants With final	p. 241
Is-a Vs. Has-a Relationships	p. 242
The Java Object Class	p. 243
Using Interfaces For Multiple Inheritance	p. 247
Creating Inner Classes	p. 250
Creating Anonymous Inner Classes	p. 251
AWT: Applets, Applications, And Event Handling	p. 253
The Abstract Windowing Toolkit	p. 255
Applets	p. 256
Applications	p. 257
Handling Events	p. 258
Using The Abstract Windowing Toolkit	p. 259
Creating Applets	p. 269
Using The [Applet] HTML Tag	p. 271
Handling Non-Java Browsers	p. 274
Embedding [Applet] Tags In Code	p. 274
Using The init, start, stop, destroy, paint, And update Methods	p. 275
Drawing Graphics In Applets	p. 277
Using The Java Browser Plug-In	p. 278
Reading Parameters In Applets	p. 280
Using Java Consoles In Browsers	p. 281
Adding Controls To Applets: Text Fields	p. 282
Adding Controls To Applets: Buttons	p. 284
Handling Events	p. 285
Using Adapter Classes	p. 294
Using Anonymous Inner Adapter Classes	p. 296
Creating Windowed Applications	p. 297
Exiting An Application When Its Window Is Closed	p. 300
Applications You Can Run As Applets	p. 302
AWT: Text Fields, Buttons, Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, And Layouts	p. 305
Text Fields	p. 306
Buttons	p. 306
Check Boxes	p. 306
Radio Buttons	p. 307
Layouts	p. 307
Using Text Fields	p. 309
Using Labels	p. 312
Using Buttons	p. 314
Using Check Boxes	p. 318
Using Radio Buttons	p. 323
Flow Layouts	p. 325
Grid Layouts	p. 329
Using Panels	p. 332
Border Layouts	p. 335
Card Layouts	p. 338
Grid Bag Layouts	p. 342
Using Insets And Padding	p. 348
Creating Your Own Layout Manager	p. 351
AWT: Lists, Choices, Text Areas, Scrollbars, And Scroll Panes	p. 353
Lists	p. 354
Choices	p. 354
Text Areas	p. 355
Scrollbars	p. 355
Scroll Panes	p. 355
Using Text Areas	p. 356
Replacing Text In Text Areas	p. 359
Searching For And Selecting Text In Text Areas	p. 361
Using Lists	p. 364
Using Multiple Selection Lists	p. 369
Using Choice Controls	p. 372
Using Scrollbars	p. 377
Scrollbars And Border Layouts	p. 384
Using Scroll Panes	p. 387
AWT: Graphics, Images, Text, And Fonts	p. 393
Graphics	p. 394
Images	p. 394
Text And Fonts	p. 394
The Keyboard And Mouse	p. 395
Using The Mouse	p. 396
Using The Keyboard	p. 400
Using Fonts	p. 404
Using Images	p. 412
Resizing Images	p. 415
Drawing Graphics	p. 417
Selecting Colors	p. 428
Using Canvases	p. 431
Using The ImageObserver Interface	p. 434
Using The MediaTracker Class	p. 436
Working Pixel By Pixel: The PixelGrabber And MemoryImageSource Classes	p. 439
Brightening Images	p. 443
Converting Images To Grayscale	p. 445
Embossing Images	p. 447
AWT: Windows, Menus, And Dialog Boxes	p. 449
Windows	p. 450
Menus	p. 451
Dialog Boxes	p. 451
Creating Frame Windows	p. 452
Showing And Hiding Windows	p. 454
Handling Window Events	p. 457
Automatically Hiding Windows Upon Closing	p. 460
Using The Window Class	p. 461
Creating Menus	p. 466
Creating A MenuBar Object	p. 469
Creating Menu Objects	p. 470
Creating Menultem Objects	p. 472
Handling Menu Events	p. 475
More Menu Options	p. 477
Adding Menu Separators	p. 480
Disabling Menu Items	p. 481
Adding Check Marks To Menus	p. 482
Creating Submenus	p. 485
Pop-up Menus	p. 487
Dialog Boxes	p. 490
File Dialog Boxes	p. 495
Swing: Applets, Applications, And Pluggable Look And Feel	p. 499
The Java Foundation Classes	p. 500
Swing	p. 501
Heavyweight Versus Lightweight Components	p. 503
Swing Features	p. 504
Graphics Programming Using Panes	p. 505
Model View Controller Architecture	p. 506
Working With Swing	p. 507
Preparing To Create A Swing Applet	p. 511
Understanding Root Panes	p. 514
Understanding Layered Panes	p. 516
Understanding Content Panes	p. 518
Creating A Swing Applet	p. 519
Creating A Swing Application	p. 522
Closing JFrame Windows	p. 526
Selecting Component Borders	p. 528
Setting The Pluggable Look And Feel	p. 532
Setting The Pluggable Look And Feel For Components	p. 537
Swing: Text Fields, Buttons, Toggle Buttons, Check Boxes, And Radio Buttons	p. 541
Labels And Text Fields	p. 542
Buttons	p. 542
Toggle Buttons	p. 542
Check Boxes And Radio Buttons	p. 543
Using Labels	p. 544
Using Image Icons	p. 547
Using Images In Labels	p. 549
Using Text Fields	p. 550
Abstract Button: The Foundation Of Swing Buttons	p. 553
Using Buttons	p. 558
Displaying Images In Buttons	p. 561
Using Rollover And Disabled Images	p. 563
Default Buttons And Mnemonics	p. 565
Using Toggle Buttons	p. 567
Creating Toggle Button Groups	p. 569
Using Check Boxes	p. 571
Using Radio Buttons	p. 574
Using Check Box And Radio Button Images	p. 577
Getting And Setting The State Of Check Boxes And Radio Buttons	p. 579
Swing: Viewports, Scrolling, Sliders, And Lists	p. 583
Viewports	p. 584
Scroll Panes	p. 584
Sliders	p. 584
Scroll Bars	p. 585
Lists	p. 585
Handling Viewports	p. 586
Creating Scroll Panes	p. 592
Creating Scroll Pane Headers And Borders	p. 597
Scrolling Images	p. 598
Creating Sliders	p. 600
Filling A Slider	p. 605
Painting Slider Tick Marks	p. 606
Painting Slider Labels	p. 607
Setting The Slider Extent	p. 608
Creating Scroll Bars	p. 609
Creating Lists	p. 614
Handling Multiple List Selections	p. 620
Displaying Images In Lists	p. 622
Creating A Custom List Model	p. 623
Creating A Custom List Cell Renderer	p. 624
Handling Double-Clicks In Lists	p. 625
Swing: Combo Boxes, Progress Bars, Tooltips, Separators, And Choosers	p. 629
Combo Boxes	p. 630
Progress Bars	p. 630
Choosers	p. 631
Tooltips	p. 631
Separators	p. 631
Creating Combo Boxes	p. 632
Handling Combo Box Selection Events	p. 637
Creating Editable Combo Boxes	p. 640
Adding Images To Combo Boxes	p. 642
Creating A Combo Box Model	p. 644
Creating A Combo Box Custom Renderer	p. 645
Creating Progress Bars	p. 646
Updating Progress Bars	p. 650
Handling Progress Bar Events	p. 652
Creating Tooltips	p. 654
Creating Separators	p. 656
Resizing Separators Automatically	p. 659
Creating Color Choosers	p. 661
Creating File Choosers	p. 665
Creating File Chooser Filters	p. 673
Swing: Layered Panes, Tabbed Panes, Split Panes, And Layouts	p. 677
Layered Panes	p. 678
Tabbed Panes	p. 678
Split Panes	p. 679
Layouts	p. 679
Understanding Swing Components And ZOrder	p. 680
Making Swing Components Transparent	p. 682
Using Layered Panes	p. 685
Creating Tabbed Panes	p. 688
Specifying Tab Placement in Tabbed Panes	p. 694
Using Split Panes	p. 696
Making Split Panes One-Touch Expandable	p. 701
Setting Split Pane Orientation	p. 703
Setting Split Pane Divider Size	p. 705
Using The Box Layout Manager	p. 706
Using The Box Class	p. 709
Using The Overlay Layout Manager	p. 714
Swing: Menus And Toolbars	p. 717
Menus	p. 718
Toolbars	p. 718
Creating A Menu Bar	p. 719
Creating A Menu	p. 721
Creating A Menu Item	p. 724
Creating A Basic Menu System	p. 726
Adding Images To Menus	p. 731
Creating Check Box Menu Items	p. 733
Creating Radio Button Menus	p. 736
Creating Submenus	p. 739
Creating Menu Accelerators And Mnemonics	p. 741
Enabling/Disabling Menu Items And Changing Captions At Runtime	p. 744
Adding And Removing Menu Items At Runtime	p. 746
Adding Buttons And Other Controls To Menus	p. 749
Creating Pop-up Menus	p. 750
Creating Toolbars	p. 755
Adding Combo Boxes And Other Controls To Toolbars	p. 759
Swing: Windows, Desktop Panes, Inner Frames, And Dialog Boxes	p. 763
Windows	p. 764
Dialog Boxes	p. 764
Creating A Window	p. 765
Creating A Frame Window	p. 769
Creating A Desktop Pane	p. 771
Creating Internal Frames	p. 773
Using JOptionPane To Create Dialog Boxes	p. 781
Creating Option Pane Confirmation Dialog Boxes	p. 788
Creating Option Pane Message Dialog Boxes	p. 790
Creating Option Pane Text Field Input Dialog Boxes	p. 792
Creating Option Pane Combo Box Input Dialog Boxes	p. 794
Creating Option Pane Internal Frame Dialog Boxes	p. 796
Creating Dialog Boxes With JDialog	p. 798
Getting Input From Dialog Boxes Created With JDialog	p. 802
Swing: Tables And Trees	p. 805
Tables	p. 806
Trees	p. 806
Creating Tables	p. 808
Adding Rows And Columns To Tables At Runtime	p. 822
Adding Controls And Images To Tables	p. 826
Creating Trees	p. 829
Adding Data To Trees	p. 838
Handling Tree Events	p. 840
Editing Tree Nodes	p. 842
Swing: Text Components	p. 845
Text Fields	p. 846
Password Fields	p. 846
Text Areas	p. 846
Editor Panes	p. 847
Text Panes	p. 847
Creating Swing Text Components: The JTextComponent Class	p. 848
Creating Text Fields	p. 852
Setting Text Field Alignment	p. 853
Scrolling Text Fields	p. 855
Creating Password Fields	p. 858
Creating Text Areas	p. 861
Creating Editor Panes	p. 864
Using HTML In Editor Panes	p. 869
Adding Hyperlinks To Editor Panes	p. 872
Using RTF Files In Editor Panes	p. 875
Creating Text Panes	p. 876
Inserting Images And Controls Into Text Panes	p. 879
Setting Text Pane Text Attributes	p. 880
I/O Streams And Files	p. 885
Streams, Readers, And Writers	p. 886
Using The File Class	p. 888
Working With InputStream	p. 892
Working With OutputStream	p. 893
Working With FileInputStream	p. 893
Working With FileOutputStream	p. 896
Working With ByteArrayInputStream	p. 898
Working With ByteArrayOutputStream	p. 900
Working With BufferedInputStream	p. 902
Working With BufferedOutputStream	p. 905
Working With RandomAccessFile	p. 906
Working With Reader	p. 908
Working With Writer	p. 909
Keyboard Input: Working With InputStreamReader	p. 910
Working With OutputStreamWriter	p. 912
Working With FileReader	p. 913
Working With FileWriter	p. 914
Working With CharArrayReader	p. 915
Working With CharArrayWriter	p. 917
Working With BufferedReader	p. 918
Working With BufferedWriter	p. 920
Working With PushbackReader	p. 921
Working With StreamTokenizer	p. 922
Working With Serialization	p. 924
Working With The Clipboard	p. 929
Working With The Printer	p. 930
Collections	p. 931
The Collection Interfaces	p. 932
The Collection Classes	p. 932
The Map Interfaces	p. 933
The Map Classes	p. 933
Using The Collection Interface	p. 934
Using The List Interface	p. 935
Using the Set Interface	p. 936
Using The SortedSet Interface	p. 937
Using The AbstractCollection Class	p. 937
Using The AbstractList Class	p. 938
Using The AbstractSequentialList Class	p. 940
Using The ArrayList Class	p. 940
Using The LinkedList Class	p. 943
Using The HashSet Class	p. 946
Using The TreeSet Class	p. 947
Using The Comparator Interface	p. 949
Using The Iterator Interface	p. 951
Using The Listlterator Interface	p. 953
Using The AbstractMap Class	p. 955
Using The HashMap Class	p. 956
Using The TreeMap Class	p. 958
Using The Arrays Class	p. 959
Using The Enumeration Interface	p. 963
Using The Vector Class	p. 964
Using The Stack Class	p. 968
Using The Dictionary Class	p. 970
Using The Hashtable Class	p. 970
Using The Properties Class	p. 973
Multithreaded Programming And Animation	p. 975
Using Threads In Java	p. 976
Getting The Main Thread	p. 978
Naming A Thread	p. 978
Pausing A Thread	p. 979
Creating A Thread With The Runnable Interface	p. 980
Creating A Thread With The Thread Class	p. 982
Creating Multiple Threads	p. 986
Waiting For (Joining) Threads	p. 988
Checking Whether A Thread Is Alive	p. 990
Setting Thread Priority And Stopping Threads	p. 992
Why Use Synchronization?	p. 994
Synchronizing Code Blocks	p. 996
Synchronizing Methods	p. 998
Communicating Between Threads	p. 999
Suspending And Resuming Threads	p. 1002
Creating Graphics Animation With Threads	p. 1004
Eliminating Flicker In Graphics Animation	p. 1006
Suspending And Resuming Graphics Animation	p. 1008
Double Buffering	p. 1011
Creating Packages, Interfaces, JAR Files, And Java Beans	p. 1013
Creating Packages And Interfaces	p. 1014
JAR Files	p. 1014
Java Beans	p. 1014
Creating A Package	p. 1017
Creating Packages That Have Subpackages	p. 1018
Creating An Interface	p. 1019
Partially Implementing An Interface	p. 1020
Creating A JAR File	p. 1022
Getting The Contents Of A JAR File	p. 1024
Extracting Files From A JAR File	p. 1024
Updating JAR Files	p. 1025
Reading From JAR Files In Code	p. 1025
Using javac To Get Classes From JAR Files	p. 1029
Letting Applets Get Classes From JAR Files	p. 1030
Designing Programs Using Java Beans	p. 1031
Creating Applets That Use Java Beans	p. 1034
Creating A Java Bean	p. 1036
Creating A Bean Manifest File	p. 1038
Creating A Bean Jar File	p. 1039
Using A New Bean	p. 1039
Adding Controls To Beans	p. 1040
Giving A Bean Properties	p. 1043
Creating Bound Properties	p. 1052
Giving A Bean Methods	p. 1052
Giving A Bean An Icon	p. 1055
Exception Handling, Debugging, And Networking	p. 1057
Exception Handing	p. 1058
Debugging	p. 1059
Networking	p. 1059
Catching An Exception	p. 1061
Nesting try Statements	p. 1065
Throwing Exceptions	p. 1065
Creating A Custom Exception	p. 1066
Debugging Java Programs	p. 1068
Setting Applet Security Policies	p. 1071
Using URL Objects	p. 1074
Using URLConnection Objects	p. 1076
Creating And Using Sockets	p. 1080
Creating TCP Clients And Servers	p. 1083
Submitting An HTML Form From Java	p. 1085
Using Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)	p. 1087
Creating Java Servlets	p. 1099
Index	p. 1105
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