Core Java: Advanced Features Volume II (Prentice Hall)
Thursday, 08 December 2016

The 10th edition of a classic two-volume work by Cay Horstmann has been extensively updated to reflect the changes in Java SE 8 and rewritten and reorganized to illuminate new Java features, idioms, and best practices. In this second volume, Horstmann provides in-depth coverage of advanced topics including the new Streams API and date/time/calendar library, advanced Swing, security, and code processing.

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Author: Cay Horstmann
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: December 2016 Pages: 1088
ISBN: 978-0134177298
Print: 0134177290
Kindle: B01MTY3K7C
Audience: Java developers
Level: Advanced
Category: Java

  • Use the new Streams library to process collections more flexibly and efficiently
  • Efficiently access files and directories, read/write binary or text data, and serialize objects
  • Work with Java SE 8’s regular expression package
  • Make the most of XML in Java: parsing, validation, XPath, document generation, XSL, and more
  • Connect Java programs to network services
  • Program databases with JDBC 4.2
  • Overcome date/time programming complexities with the new java.time API
  • Write internationalized programs with localized dates/times, numbers, text, and GUIs
  • Process code with the scripting API, compiler API, and annotation processors
  • Enforce security via class loaders, bytecode verification, security managers, permissions, user authentication, digital signatures, code signing, and encryption
  • Master advanced Swing components for lists, tables, trees, text, and progress indicators
  • Produce high-quality drawings with the Java 2D API
  • Use JNI native methods to leverage code in other languages

See Alex Armstrong's review of the previous edition in which he awards a rating of 4.5 (out of a possible 5) stars.

 

 

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