Java Examples in a Nutshell
A Tutorial Companion to Java in a Nutshell
Published on 7. October 1997
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414 pages
978-1-56592-371-3 (ISBN)
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This companion volume to "Java in a Nutshell" picks up where that book leaves off, providing a suite of example programs for novice Java programmers and experts alike. It delivers working examples that should help users explore the wide range of what is possible with Java 1.1. Each chapter concludes with programming exercises that suggest further avenues for building on what has been learned. In addition there are programming examples for remote method invocation, database connectivity, and security important elements of the Java Enterprise APIs. Finally, the book offers a glimpse of the features of "Swing", the set of new components that are part of the forthcoming Java Foundation Classes (JFC).
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David Flanagan is the author of the bestselling Java in a Nutshell. When David isn't busy writing about Java, he is a consulting computer programmer, user interface designer, and trainer. His other books with O'Reilly include JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Netscape IFC in a Nutshell, X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual, and Motif Tools: Streamlined GUI Design and Programming with the Xmt Library. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jim Farley is a software engineer, computer scientist, and IT manager. His recent activities have included heading up the engineering group at the Harvard Business School and bringing good things to life at GE's Research and Development center. He's dealt with computing (distributed and otherwise) in lots of different ways, from automated image inspection to temporal reasoning systems. Jim has bachelor's and master's degrees in computer systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. William Crawford got involved with Web development back in 1995. He has worked at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program in Boston, where he helped develop the first Web-based electronic medical record system and was involved in some of the first uses of Java at the enterprise level. He has consulted for a wide variety of institutional clients, including Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical Center, and several Fortune 500 companies. Will currently heads the product development team at Invantage, Inc., a Cambridge, Massachusetts, company developing Java-based intranet tools for the pharmaceutical industry. In his spare time he is an avid photographer, writer, and economics student at Yale University. Kristopher Magnusson is the Open Source Programs Architect at Novell. He edited the original Java Directory Service Interface proposal for JavaSoft in 1996, worked on the Novell JNDI design team as the lead writer, and wrote JNDI sample code and tutorials. He earned a Bachelor's of Science from the University of Utah in 1991 in economics, has been active in the David Flanagan is the author of the bestselling Java in a Nutshell. When David isn't busy writing about Java, he is a consulting computer programmer, user interface designer, and trainer. His other books with O'Reilly & Associates include JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Netscape IFC in a Nutshell, X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual, and Motif Tools: Streamlined GUI Design and Programming with the Xmt Library. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.