Legendary programming author Herb Schildt shares some of his favorite programming techniques in this high-powered Java "cookbook." Organized for quick reference, each recipe shows how to accomplish a practical programming task. A recipe begins with a list of key ingredients (the classes, methods, and interfaces) followed by step-by-step instructions that show how to assemble them into a complete solution. Detailed discussions explain the how and why behind each step, and a full code example puts the recipe into action. Each recipe ends with a list of options and alternatives that suggest ways to adapt the technique to fit a variety of situations. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced pro, you'll find recipes that are sure to satisfy your Java programming appetite!
Topics include:
- String Handling
- Regular Expressions
- File Handling
- Applets
- Servlets
- Swing
- The Collections Framework
- Multithreading
- Formatting Data
Learn how to:
- Find substrings that match a regular expression
- Use regular expressions to tokenize a string
- Compress and decompress data files
- Create a ZIP file
- Format time and date
- Use printf( ) to display formatted data
- Reverse, rotate, and shuffle a list
- Use a Comparator with a collection
- Create a simple Swing application
- Create a Swing-based applet
- Create a simple servlet
- Use a cookie with a servlet
- Synchronize threads
- Monitor a thread's state
- Set and obtain a thread's priority
- Use JScrollPane to automate scrolling
- Access a resource using HttpURLConnection
- Schedule a task for future execution
- Use reflection to dynamically create an object and call methods
- Much, much more