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Learning Java 3rd Edition
Version 5.0 of the Java 2 Standard Edition SDK is the most
important upgrade since Java first appeared a decade ago.
With Java 5.0, you'll not only find substantial changes in
the platform, but to the language itself-something that
developers of Java took five years to complete. The main
goal of Java 5.0 is to make it easier
for you to develop
safe, powerful code, but none of these improvements makes
Java any easier to learn, even if you've programmed with
Java for years. And that means our bestselling hands-on
tutorial takes on even greater significance.
Learning Java is the most widely sought introduction to the
programming language that's changed the way we think about
computing. Our updated third edition takes an objective,
no-nonsense approach to the new features in Java 5.0, some
of which are drastically different from the way things were
done in any previous versions. The most essential change is
the addition of "generics", a feature that allows developers
to write, test, and deploy code once, and then reuse the
code again and again for different data types. The beauty of
generics is that more problems will be caught during
development, and Learning Java will show you exactly how
it's done.
Java 5.0 also adds more than 1,000 new classes to the Java
library. That means 1,000 new things you can do without
having to program it in yourself. That's a huge change. With
our book's practical examples, you'll come up to speed
quickly on this and other new features such as loops and
threads. The new edition also includes an introduction to
Eclipse, the open source IDE that is growing in popularity.
Learning Java, 3rd Edition addresses all of the important
uses of Java, such as web applications, servlets, and XML
that are increasingly driving enterprise applications. The
accompanying CD includes the Java 5.0 SDK for Windows,
Linux, and Solaris, plus the Eclipse IDE, the NetBeans IDE,
and the many example programs from the book.
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