Core Java: Vol.2 Advanced Features

Preface xv Acknowledgments xix Chapter 1: Streams and Files 1 Streams 2 Text Input and Output 11 Reading and Writing Binary Data 23 ZIP Archives 32 Object Streams and Serialization 39 File Management 59 New I/O 65 Regular Expressions 75 Chapter 2: XML 87 Introducing XML 88 Parsing an XML Document 93 Validating XML Documents 105 Locating Information with XPath 129 Using Namespaces 136 Streaming Parsers 138 Generating XML Documents 146 XSL Transformations 157 Chapter 3: Networking 169 Connecting to a Server 170 Implementing Servers 177 Interruptible Sockets 184 Sending E-Mail 191 Making URL Connections 196 Chapter 4: Database Programming 217 The Design of JDBC 218 The Structured Query Language 222 JDBC Configuration 227 Executing SQL Statements 232 Query Execution 242 Scrollable and Updatable Result Sets 254 Row Sets 260 Metadata 263 Transactions 273 Connection Management in Web and Enterprise Applications 278 Introduction to LDAP 279 Chapter 5: Internationalization 297 Locales 298 Number Formats 303 Date and Time 310 Collation 318 Message Formatting 324 Text Files and Character Sets 328 Resource Bundles 329 A Complete Example 333 Chapter 6: Advanced Swing 351 Lists 352 Tables 370 Trees 405 Text Components 442 Progress Indicators 479 Component Organizers 492 Chapter 7: Advanced AWT 521 The Rendering Pipeline 522 Shapes 524 Areas 540 Strokes 542 Paint 550 Coordinate Transformations 552 Clipping 557 Transparency and Composition 559 Rendering Hints 568 Readers and Writers for Images 575 Image Manipulation 585 Printing 601 The Clipboard 635 Drag and Drop 652 Platform Integration 668 Chapter 8: Javabeans Components 685 Why Beans? 686 The Bean-Writing Process 688 Using Beans to Build an Application 690 Naming Patterns for Bean Properties and Events 698 Bean Property Types 701 BeanInfo Classes 710 Property Editors 713 Customizers 723 JavaBeans Persistence 732 Chapter 9: Security 755 Class Loaders 756 Bytecode Verification 767 Security Managers and Permissions 771 User

Cay S. Horstmann is also coauthor of Core JavaServer Faces, Second Edition (Prentice Hall, 2007). Cay is a professor of computer science at San Jose State University, a Java Champion, and a frequent speaker at computer industry conferences. Gary Cornell has been writing and teaching programming professionals for more than twenty years and is the cofounder of Apress. He has written numerous best-selling books for programming professionals, was a cofinalist for a Jolt Award, and won the Readers' Choice award from Visual Basic Magazine.