Java in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition
Description:
Java just keeps growing, adding features, functionality, complexity, and tempting developers to growl with frustration. The new 1.4 release of Java 2 Standard edition increases the size of the platform by 50%, to 2757 classes in 135 packages. How are you going to figure out what this means for your applications? As always, Java in a Nutshell has the answers. The new 4th edition still contains an accelerated introduction to the Java programming language and its key APIs so you can start writing code right away. And with more than 250 new pages, author David Flanagan quickly brings you up to speed on new features that come with version 1.4:
- High-performance NIO API
- Support for pattern matching with regular expressions
- A logging API
- A user preferences API
- New Collections classes
- An XML-based persistence mechanism for Java Beans
- Support for XML parsing using both the DOM and SAX APIs
- User authentication with the JAAS API
- Support for secure network connections using the SSL protocol
- Support for cryptography
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