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Fully updated to reflect Java SE 7 language changes, Core Java®, Volume II—Advanced Features, Ninth Edition, is the definitive guide to Java’s most powerful features for enterprise and desktop application development.
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Volume II quickly brings you up-to-speed on key Java SE 7 enhancements, ranging from the new file I/O API to improved concurrency utilities. All code examples are updated to reflect these enhancements. Complete descriptions of new language and platform features are highlighted and integrated with insightful explanations of advanced Java programming techniques. You’ll learn all you need to build robust production software with
For detailed coverage of fundamental Java SE 7 features, including objects, classes, inheritance, interfaces, reflection, events, exceptions, graphics, Swing, generics, collections, concurrency, and debugging, look for Core Java™, Volume I—Fundamentals, Ninth Edition (ISBN-13: 978-0-13-708189-9).
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Preface xv
Acknowledgments xix
Chapter 1: Streams and Files 1
1.1 Streams 2
1.2 Text Input and Output 13
1.3 Reading and Writing Binary Data 25
1.4 ZIP Archives 33
1.5 Object Streams and Serialization 36
1.6 Working with Files 57
1.7 Memory-Mapped Files 68
1.8 Regular Expressions 81
Chapter 2: XML 93
2.1 Introducing XML 94
2.2 Parsing an XML Document 99
2.3 Validating XML Documents 113
2.4 Locating Information with XPath 140
2.5 Using Namespaces 147
2.6 Streaming Parsers 150
2.7 Generating XML Documents 159
2.8 XSL Transformations 173
Chapter 3: Networking 185
3.1 Connecting to a Server 185
3.2 Implementing Servers 194
3.3 Interruptible Sockets 202
3.4 Getting Web Data 210
3.5 Sending E-Mail 230
Chapter 4: Database Programming 235
4.1 The Design of JDBC 236
4.2 The Structured Query Language 239
4.3 JDBC Configuration 245
4.4 Executing SQL Statements 252
4.5 Query Execution 262
4.6 Scrollable and Updatable Result Sets 274
4.7 Row Sets 281
4.8 Metadata 286
4.9 Transactions 296
4.10 Connection Management in Web and Enterprise Applications 302
Chapter 5: Internationalization 305
5.1 Locales 306
5.2 Number Formats 311
5.3 Date and Time 319
5.4 Collation 328
5.5 Message Formatting 336
5.6 Text Files and Character Sets 340
5.7 Resource Bundles 341
5.8 A Complete Example 346
Chapter 6: Advanced Swing 363
6.1 Lists 364
6.2 Tables 381
6.3 Trees 420
6.4 Text Components 462
6.5 Progress Indicators 501
6.6 Component Organizers and Decorators 514
Chapter 7: Advanced AWT 549
7.1 The Rendering Pipeline 550
7.2 Shapes 553
7.3 Areas 570
7.4 Strokes 572
7.5 Paint 581
7.6 Coordinate Transformations 583
7.7 Clipping 589
7.8 Transparency and Composition 592
7.9 Rendering Hints 601
7.10 Readers and Writers for Images 608
7.11 Image Manipulation 619
7.12 Printing 636
7.13 The Clipboard 672
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