| Preface | p. xiii |
| Revolutions Leading to Java | p. 1 |
| The Promise of a Networked Computer | p. 2 |
| Computing Before the Web | p. 3 |
| Impersonal Computing | p. 3 |
| Personal Computing | p. 4 |
| Computing in the Home | p. 5 |
| Evolution of Personal Computing to LANs | p. 6 |
| Distributed Client/Server Computing | p. 6 |
| Limitations of the First Wave of Client/Server Applications | p. 9 |
| UNIX, TCP/IP, and the Birth of the Internet | p. 11 |
| Protocols for the World Network | p. 12 |
| Internet Before the Web | p. 13 |
| The World Wide Web | p. 15 |
| The Web's Birth | p. 16 |
| Moving Past Publishing - Web Client/Server | p. 18 |
| Limitations of the Web Model | p. 20 |
| Control of the Screen, Keyboard, and Mouse | p. 21 |
| Pull Technology | p. 21 |
| Security | p. 22 |
| Transaction State | p. 22 |
| Connectionless Connections | p. 23 |
| Very Thin Clients | p. 24 |
| Reasons to Brew Java | p. 24 |
| Java, the Next Step in Network Computing | p. 25 |
| Java Orientation | p. 27 |
| Language Evolution for Modern Computing | p. 27 |
| Java Features | p. 29 |
| Basic Java Components | p. 33 |
| The Java Development Kit (JDK) | p. 34 |
| Downloading and Installing the JDK | p. 35 |
| JDK Installation on Windows | p. 35 |
| JDK Installation on UNIX | p. 37 |
| Adjust Environmental Variables | p. 38 |
| Network Installation | p. 39 |
| JDK Compatibility | p. 39 |
| What's in the JDK | p. 40 |
| javac, The Java Compiler | p. 40 |
| The Java Interpreter, Java | p. 42 |
| The Java Runtime Environment, jre | p. 43 |
| The Appletviewer | p. 44 |
| The Java Debugger, jdb | p. 44 |
| The Java Virtual Machine | p. 46 |
| Other Ways To Run Java | p. 46 |
| JDK Summary | p. 49 |
| Java Language Basics | p. 51 |
| Java Program Organization | p. 52 |
| Java Applications | p. 52 |
| Java Applets | p. 55 |
| Statements | p. 57 |
| Block Statements | p. 58 |
| Control Statements | p. 58 |
| The if-else Statement | p. 59 |
| The switch Statement | p. 60 |
| The for Statement | p. 61 |
| The while Statement | p. 62 |
| The do-while Statement | p. 62 |
| try and catch | p. 63 |
| Data Types | p. 63 |
| Primitive Data Types | p. 64 |
| Type Conversions | p. 66 |
| Reference Data Types | p. 67 |
| Java Memory Management | p. 69 |
| Expressions | p. 73 |
| Operators | p. 73 |
| Arithmetic Operators | p. 74 |
| Autoincrement and Autodecrement | p. 75 |
| Bitwise Operators | p. 75 |
| Assignment | p. 76 |
| Relational Operators | p. 77 |
| Boolean Operators | p. 77 |
| Object-Oriented Programming in Java | p. 79 |
| What Is Object-Oriented Programming? | p. 80 |
| A Universe of Classes and Objects | p. 81 |
| Classes and Objects in Programming | p. 82 |
| Defining a Class | p. 82 |
| Creating an Object (Using the new Keyword) | p. 83 |
| Variables and Methods | p. 84 |
| Instance and Class Variables | p. 84 |
| Instance and Class Methods | p. 85 |
| Accessing Variable and Methods | p. 85 |
| A Simulation Example | p. 86 |
| The Four Vowels of Object-Oriented Concepts--a, e, i, and o | p. 87 |
| Abstraction | p. 87 |
| Encapsulation | p. 88 |
| Inheritance | p. 89 |
| Overriding | p. 90 |
| An Object-Oriented First Step | p. 91 |
| A Simulation Program | p. 91 |
| Single versus Multiple Inheritance | p. 96 |
| Interfaces | p. 97 |
| Packages | p. 98 |
| The Java 1.1 API and Event-Handling Model | p. 101 |
| The Java Toolbox | p. 102 |
| java.lang | p. 102 |
| Wrapper Classes | p. 102 |
| java.lang.String and StringBuffer | p. 104 |
| java.lang.Thread | p. 105 |
| java.util | p. 106 |
| java.awt | p. 107 |
| Graphical Components | p. 109 |
| java.io | p. 110 |
| The File Class | p. 111 |
| Random Access Files | p. 112 |
| Buffered I/O | p. 112 |
| The Java 1.1 Event-Handling Model | p. 114 |
| Java's Previous Event-Handling Model | p. 115 |
| The Java 1.1 Delegation Model | p. 116 |
| Sources of Events | p. 117 |
| Event Listeners | p. 117 |
| Event Types | p. 118 |
| Delegation Model Example | p. 119 |
| Caveats Regarding the 1.1 Java Developer's Kit | p. 122 |
| The Java Process Model | p. 123 |
| Multiprogramming Definitions | p. 125 |
| Threads: The Fabric of Java | p. 125 |
| Extending the Thread Class | p. 126 |
| Implementing the Runnable Interface | p. 127 |
| Safe Parallelism | p. 129 |
| Thread Priorities and the JVM Scheduler | p. 132 |
| Threadgroups | p. 133 |
| The ThreadBaker | p. 133 |
| The LazyThread Class | p. 134 |
| The addPressed() Method | p. 135 |
| The deletePressed() Method | p. 136 |
| Threads That Share Resources | p. 138 |
| ThreadBaker2 - The Shared Resource Version | p. 139 |
| Java Integrated Development Environments | p. 143 |
| IDE Advantages and Disadvantages | p. 144 |
| Symantec Cafe and Visual Cafe | p. 144 |
| Creating a Java Applet with Cafe | p. 145 |
| Debugging with Symantec Cafe | p. 150 |
| Microsoft Visual J++ 1.0 | p. 152 |
| Creating a Java Program with Visual J++ | p. 152 |
| Debugging with Visual J++ | p. 157 |
| IBM's VisualAge for Java | p. 158 |
| Sun's Java Workshop | p. 159 |
| Java for Net-Centric Programming | p. 165 |
| Working with URLs | p. 166 |
| Absolute and Relative URLs | p. 166 |
| URLs and Exception Handling | p. 167 |
| Parsing URLs | p. 168 |
| URL Connection | p. 168 |
| Reading and Writing URLs | p. 170 |
| Sockets | p. 172 |
| Implementing a TCP Client Program | p. 173 |
| Implementing a TCP Server Program | p. 175 |
| Supporting Multiple Clients | p. 177 |
| Datagrams - Implementing a Client Program | p. 178 |
| Implementing a Datagram Server Program | p. 179 |
| Servlets | p. 180 |
| Servlets Compared to Other Technologies | p. 181 |
| Java Server-Side Framework and Architecture | p. 182 |
| Servlet Security and Access Rights | p. 183 |
| Servlet Applications | p. 183 |
| A Test Drive with Java | p. 189 |
| A Learning Exercise - A Simple Drawing Applet | p. 190 |
| Intraday Stock Charting | p. 193 |
| Summary of Techniques in IChart | p. 201 |
| Java Telephone Directory Client | p. 202 |
| Java Database Connectivity--JDBC | p. 209 |
| JDBC Overview | p. 210 |
| JDBC and ODBC | p. 210 |
| JDBC URLs | p. 210 |
| API Overview | p. 212 |
| The DriverManager Class | p. 212 |
| Driver Types | p. 217 |
| Connection Class | p. 217 |
| Statement Class | p. 218 |
| Statement Object | p. 219 |
| PreparedStatement Object | p. 225 |
| CallableStatement Object | p. 227 |
| ResultSet Object | p. 231 |
| SQLException Object | p. 234 |
| JSQL | p. 235 |
| Beyond Basic Java | p. 239 |
| Java Generic Library (JGL) | p. 240 |
| Containers | p. 240 |
| JGL Algorithms | p. 244 |
| JGL Function Objects | p. 245 |
| JGL Iterators | p. 247 |
| NetRexx | p. 251 |
| NetRexx Merges Rexx and Java | p. 252 |
| NetRexx Type and Name System | p. 253 |
| Using NetRexx | p. 254 |
| Other NetRexx Features | p. 257 |
| Decimal Arithmetic for Commercial Applications | p. 260 |
| Advanced Java Client/Server | p. 265 |
| Marimba's Castanet System | p. 266 |
| Castanet System | p. 266 |
| Castanet Outlook | p. 268 |
| Java Beans | p. 268 |
| JavaBeans and CORBA | p. 269 |
| JavaBeans and ActiveX | p. 270 |
| Component Object Model (COM) | p. 271 |
| Comparing JavaBeans and ActiveX | p. 272 |
| Choosing between JavaBeans and ActiveX | p. 275 |
| Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) | p. 275 |
| RMI Architecture | p. 276 |
| RMI Implementation | p. 277 |
| Java Platform for the Enterprise | p. 282 |
| Java Enterprise System Management Services | p. 283 |
| Java Enterprise Application Services | p. 283 |
| Enterprise JavaBeans | p. 284 |
| Java Security | p. 287 |
| The World Became More Difficult | p. 288 |
| Applets That Go Bump in the Night and Other Risks | p. 288 |
| Types of Threats | p. 289 |
| Applet Security | p. 289 |
| Java Security Implementation | p. 291 |
| Java Language Safety | p. 292 |
| The Class Loader | p. 293 |
| The Byte-Code Verifier | p. 294 |
| The Security Manager | p. 296 |
| Breaches in Java Security | p. 297 |
| Forged E-mail | p. 299 |
| Denial of Service and Antagonism | p. 300 |
| Managing Applet Security | p. 300 |
| Safe Java at Home | p. 300 |
| Eating Out - Java Obtained over the Internet | p. 301 |
| Stay on Top of Security News | p. 302 |
| Theft of Intellectual Property | p. 302 |
| Cryptographic Security for Electronic Commerce | p. 304 |
| Crytography Concepts | p. 306 |
| Java Security API | p. 308 |
| What the Security API Provides | p. 309 |
| Signed Applets Using JAR Files | p. 309 |
| The Network Computer--a Java Machine | p. 317 |
| Reducing the Cost of Computing | p. 319 |
| Sun's JavaStation and Netra J | p. 320 |
| JavaOS | p. 321 |
| Other Network Computers | p. 323 |
| IBM's Network Station | p. 323 |
| Oracle's NCI Subsidiary | p. 323 |
| Microsoft's Response to the NC | p. 323 |
| What Is an NC After All? | p. 324 |
| What's Old Is New Again | p. 324 |
| Internet Appliances | p. 325 |
| Interpreted Execution Performance | p. 325 |
| Sun's picoJava I | p. 326 |
| How Fast, Did You Ask? | p. 327 |
| Obstacles to the NC | p. 328 |
| Conclusions: Java for Enterprise Computing | p. 331 |
| Java Limitations | p. 332 |
| Java and Requirements for IS Providers | p. 335 |
| Index | p. 339 |
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