Java How to Program

Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he studied Information Technology. He holds the Java Certified Programmer and Java Certified Developer certifications, and has been designated by Sun Microsystems as a Java Champion. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered Java, C, C++, C# and Visual Basic courses to industry clients, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Lucent Technologies, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Stratus, Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation, One Wave, Hyperion Software, Adra Systems, Entergy, CableData Systems, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, Invensys and many more. He has also lectured on Java and C++ for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world’s best-selling programming language textbook authors. Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 45 years of academic and industry experience in the computer field. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the MIT and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He has 20 years of college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He and Paul are the co-authors of several dozen books and multimedia packages and they are writing many more. With translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish, the Deitels’ texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of professional seminars to major corporations, academic institutions, government organizations and the military.

Preface

1. Introduction to Computers, the Internet and the Web

2. Introduction to Java Applications

3. Introduction to Classes and Objects

4. Control Statements: Part 1

5. Control Statements: Part 2

6. Methods: A Deeper Look

7. Arrays

8. Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look

9. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

10. Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism

11. Graphical User Interface Components: Part 1

12. Graphics and Java 2D

13. Exception Handling

14. Files and Streams

15. Recursion

16. Searching and Sorting

17. Data Structures

18. Collections

19. Generics

20. Introduction to Applets

21. Multimedia: Applets and Applications

22. Graphical User Interface Components: Part 2

23. Multithreading

24. Networking

25. Accessing Databases with JDBC

26. Creating Web Applications with JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Java Studio Creator 2

27. Creating and Consuming Web Services with Netbeans 5.5

28. Formatted Output

29. Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions

A. Operator Precedence Chart

B. ASCII Character Set

C. Keywords and Reserved Words

D. Primitive Types

E. Number Systems

F. Unicode® 

G. Using the Java API Documentation

H. Creating Documentation with javadoc 

I. Bit Manipulation 

J. ATM Case Study Code 

K. Labeled break and continue Statements 

L. UML 2: Additional Diagram Types 

M. Design Patterns 

N. Using the Debugger

O. Additional Java SE 6 Features

Bibliography

Index