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Java Cookbook, Second Edition By Ian F. Darwin
June 2004
Pages: 862

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Chapter 1 Getting Started: Compiling, Running, and Debugging
1. Introduction
2. Compiling and Running Java: JDK
3. Editing and Compiling with a Color-Highlighting Editor
4. Compiling, Running, and Testing with an IDE
5. Using CLASSPATH Effectively
6. Using the com.darwinsys API Classes from This Book
7. Compiling the Source Code Examples from This Book
8. Automating Compilation with Ant
9. Running Applets
10. Dealing with Deprecation Warnings
11. Conditional Debugging Without #ifdef
12. Debugging Printouts
13. Maintaining Program Correctness with Assertions
14. Debugging with JDB
15. Unit Testing: Avoid the Need for Debuggers
16. Getting Readable Tracebacks
17. Finding More Java Source Code
18. Program: Debug
Chapter 2 Interacting with the Environment
1. Introduction
2. Getting Environment Variables
3. System Properties
4. Writing JDK Release-Dependent Code
5. Writing Operating System-Dependent Code
6. Using Extensions or Other Packaged APIs
7. Parsing Command-Line Arguments
Chapter 3 Strings and Things
1. Introduction
2. Taking Strings Apart with Substrings
3. Taking Strings Apart with StringTokenizer
4. Putting Strings Together with +, StringBuilder (JDK 1.5), and StringBuffer
5. Processing a String One Character at a Time
6. Aligning Strings
7. Converting Between Unicode Characters and Strings
8. Reversing a String by Word or by Character
9. Expanding and Compressing Tabs
10. Controlling Case
11. Indenting Text Documents
12. Entering Nonprintable Characters
13. Trimming Blanks from the End of a String
14. Parsing Comma-Separated Data
15. Program: A Simple Text Formatter
16. Program: Soundex Name Comparisons
Chapter 4 Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
1. Introduction
2. Regular Expression Syntax
3. Using regexes in Java: Test for a Pattern
4. Finding the Matching Text
5. Replacing the Matched Text
6. Printing All Occurrences of a Pattern
7. Printing Lines Containing a Pattern
8. Controlling Case in Regular Expressions
9. Matching "Accented" or Composite Characters
10. Matching Newlines in Text
11. Program: Apache Logfile Parsing
12. Program: Data Mining
13. Program: Full Grep
Chapter 5 Numbers
1. Introduction
2. Checking Whether a String Is a Valid Number
3. Storing a Larger Number in a Smaller Number
4. Converting Numbers to Objects and Vice Versa
5. Taking a Fraction of an Integer Without Using Floating Point
6. Ensuring the Accuracy of Floating-Point Numbers
7. Comparing Floating-Point Numbers
8. Rounding Floating-Point Numbers
9. Formatting Numbers
10. Converting Between Binary, Octal, Decimal, and Hexadecimal
11. Operating on a Series of Integers
12. Working with Roman Numerals
13. Formatting with Correct Plurals
14. Generating Random Numbers
15. Generating Better Random Numbers
16. Calculating Trigonometric Functions
17. Taking Logarithms
18. Multiplying Matrices
19. Using Complex Numbers
20. Handling Very Large Numbers
21. Program: TempConverter
22. Program: Number Palindromes
Chapter 6 Dates and Times
1. Introduction
2. Finding Today's Date
3. Printing Date/Time in a Given Format
4. Representing Dates in Other Epochs
5. Converting YMDHMS to a Calendar or Epoch Seconds
6. Parsing Strings into Dates
7. Converting Epoch Seconds to DMYHMS
8. Adding to or Subtracting from a Dateor Calendar
9. Difference Between Two Dates
10. Comparing Dates
11. Day of Week/Month/Year or Week Number
12. Creating a Calendar Page
13. Measuring Elapsed Time
14. Sleeping for a While
15. Program: Reminder Service
Chapter 7 Structuring Data with Java
1. Introduction
2. Using Arrays for Data Structuring
3. Resizing an Array
4. Like an Array, but More Dynamic
5. Using Iterators for Data-Independent Access
6. Structuring Data in a Linked List
7. Mapping with Hashtable and HashMap
8. Storing Strings in Properties and Preferences
9. Sorting a Collection
10. Avoiding the Urge to Sort
11. Eschewing Duplication
12. Finding an Object in a Collection
13. Converting a Collection to an Array
14. Rolling Your Own Iterator
15. Stack
16. Multidimensional Structures
17. Finally, Collections
18. Program: Timing Comparisons
Chapter 8 Data Structuring with Generics, foreach, and Enumerations (JDK 1.5)
1. Introduction
2. Using Generic Collections
3. Using "foreach" Loops
4. Avoid Casting by Using Generics
5. Let Java Convert with AutoBoxing and AutoUnboxing
6. Using Typesafe Enumerations
7. Program: MediaInvoicer
Chapter 9 Object-Oriented Techniques
1. Introduction
2. Printing Objects: Formatting with toString( )
3. Overriding the Equals Method
4. Overriding the hashCode Method
5. The Clone Method
6. The Finalize Method
7. Using Inner Classes
8. Providing Callbacks via Interfaces
9. Polymorphism/Abstract Methods
10. Passing Values
11. Enforcing the Singleton Pattern
12. Roll Your Own Exceptions
13. Program: Plotter
Chapter 10 Input and Output
1. Introduction
2. Reading Standard Input
3. Writing Standard Output
4. Printing with the 1.5 Formatter
5. Scanning a File with StreamTokenizer
6. Scanning Input with the 1.5 Scanner Class
7. Opening a File by Name
8. Copying a File
9. Reading a File into a String
10. Reassigning the Standard Streams
11. Duplicating a Stream as It Is Written
12. Reading/Writing a Different Character Set
13. Those Pesky End-of-Line Characters
14. Beware Platform-Dependent File Code
15. Reading "Continued" Lines
16. Binary Data
17. Seeking
18. Writing Data Streams from C
19. Saving and Restoring Java Objects
20. Preventing ClassCastExceptions with SerialVersionUID
21. Reading and Writing JAR or Zip Archives
22. Reading and Writing Compressed Files
23. Program: Text to PostScript
Chapter 11 Directory and Filesystem Operations
1. Introduction
2. Getting File Information
3. Creating a File
4. Renaming a File
5. Deleting a File
6. Creating a Transient File
7. Changing File Attributes
8. Listing a Directory
9. Getting the Directory Roots
10. Creating New Directories
11. Program: Find
Chapter 12 Programming External Devices: Serial and Parallel Ports
1. Introduction
2. Choosing a Port
3. Opening a Serial Port
4. Opening a Parallel Port
5. Resolving Port Conflicts
6. Reading and Writing: Lock-Step
7. Reading and Writing: Event-Driven
8. Reading and Writing: Threads
9. Program: Penman Plotter
Chapter 13 Graphics and Sound
1. Introduction
2. Painting with a Graphics Object
3. Testing Graphical Components
4. Drawing Text
5. Drawing Centered Text in a Component
6. Drawing a Drop Shadow
7. Drawing Text with 2D
8. Drawing Text with an Application Font
9. Drawing an Image
10. Playing a Sound File
11. Playing a Video Clip
12. Printing in Java
13. Program: PlotterAWT
14. Program: Grapher
Chapter 14 Graphical User Interfaces
1. Introduction
2. Displaying GUI Components
3. Designing a Window Layout
4. A Tabbed View of Life
5. Action Handling: Making Buttons Work
6. Action Handling Using Anonymous Inner Classes
7. Terminating a Program with"Window Close"
8. Dialogs: When Later Just Won't Do
9. Catching and Formatting GUI Exceptions
10. Getting Program Output into a Window
11. Choosing a Value with JSpinner
12. Choosing a File with JFileChooser
13. Choosing a Color
14. Formatting JComponents with HTML
15. Centering a Main Window
16. Changing a Swing Program's Look and Feel
17. Enhancing Your GUI for Mac OS X
18. Program: Custom Font Chooser
19. Program: Custom Layout Manager
Chapter 15 Internationalization and Localization
1. Introduction
2. Creating a Button with I18N Resources
3. Listing Available Locales
4. Creating a Menu with I18N Resources
5. Writing Internationalization Convenience Routines
6. Creating a Dialog with I18N Resources
7. Creating a Resource Bundle
8. Extracting Strings from Your Code
9. Using a Particular Locale
10. Setting the Default Locale
11. Formatting Messages
12. Program: MenuIntl
13. Program: BusCard
Chapter 16 Network Clients
1. Introduction
2. Contacting a Server
3. Finding and Reporting Network Addresses
4. Handling Network Errors
5. Reading and Writing Textual Data
6. Reading and Writing Binary Data
7. Reading and Writing Serialized Data
8. UDP Datagrams
9. Program: TFTP UDP Client
10. Program: Telnet Client
11. Program: Chat Client
Chapter 17 Server-Side Java: Sockets
1. Introduction
2. Opening a Server for Business
3. Returning a Response (String or Binary)
4. Returning Object Information
5. Handling Multiple Clients
6. Serving the HTTP Protocol
7. Securing a Web Server with SSL and JSSE
8. Network Logging
9. Network Logging with log4j
10. Network Logging with JDK 1.4
11. Finding Network Interfaces
12. Program: A Java Chat Server
Chapter 18 Network Clients II: Applets and Web Clients
1. Introduction
2. Embedding Java in a Web Page
3. Applet Techniques
4. Contacting a Server on the Applet Host
5. Making an Applet Show a Document
6. Making an Applet Run JavaScript
7. Making an Applet Run a CGI Script
8. Reading the Contents of a URL
9. URI, URL, or URN?
10. Extracting HTML from a URL
11. Extracting URLs from a File
12. Converting a Filename to a URL
13. Program: MkIndex
14. Program: LinkChecker
Chapter 19 Java and Electronic Mail
1. Introduction
2. Sending Email: Browser Version
3. Sending Email: For Real
4. Mail-Enabling a Server Program
5. Sending MIME Mail
6. Providing Mail Settings
7. Sending Mail Without Using JavaMail
8. Reading Email
9. Program: MailReaderBean
10. Program: MailClient
Chapter 20 Database Access
1. Introduction
2. Easy Database Access with JDO
3. Text-File Databases
4. DBM Databases
5. JDBC Setup and Connection
6. Connecting to a JDBC Database
7. Sending a JDBC Query and Getting Results
8. Using JDBC Prepared Statements
9. Using Stored Procedures with JDBC
10. Changing Data Using a ResultSet
11. Storing Results in a RowSet
12. Changing Data Using SQL
13. Finding JDBC Metadata
14. Program: SQLRunner
Chapter 21 XML
1. Introduction
2. Generating XML from Objects
3. Transforming XML with XSLT
4. Parsing XML with SAX
5. Parsing XML with DOM
6. Verifying Structure with a DTD
7. Generating Your Own XML with DOM
8. Program: xml2mif
Chapter 22 Distributed Java: RMI
1. Introduction
2. Defining the RMI Contract
3. Creating an RMI Client
4. Creating an RMI Server
5. Deploying RMI Across a Network
6. Program: RMI Callbacks
7. Program: NetWatch
Chapter 23 Packages and Packaging
1. Introduction
2. Creating a Package
3. Documenting Classes with Javadoc
4. Beyond JavaDoc: Annotations/Metadata (JDK 1.5) and XDoclet
5. Archiving with jar
6. Running an Applet from a JAR
7. Running an Applet with a Modern JDK
8. Running a Main Program from a JAR
9. Preparing a Class as a JavaBean
10. Pickling Your Bean into a JAR
11. Packaging a Servlet into a WAR File
12. "Write Once, Install Anywhere"
13. "Write Once, Install on Mac OS X"
14. Java Web Start
15. Signing Your JAR File
Chapter 24 Threaded Java
1. Introduction
2. Running Code in a Different Thread
3. Displaying a Moving Image with Animation
4. Stopping a Thread
5. Rendezvous and Timeouts
6. Synchronizing Threads with the synchronized Keyword
7. Simplifying Synchronization with 1.5 Locks
8. Synchronizing Threads with wait( ) and notifyAll( )
9. Simplifying Producer-Consumer with the 1.5 Queue Interface
10. Background Saving in an Editor
11. Program: Threaded Network Server
12. Simplifying Servers Using the Concurrency Utilities (JDK 1.5)
Chapter 25 Introspection, or "A Class Named Class"
1. Introduction
2. Getting a Class Descriptor
3. Finding and Using Methods and Fields
4. Loading and Instantiating a Class Dynamically
5. Constructing a Class from Scratch
6. Performance Timing
7. Printing Class Information
8. Program: CrossRef
9. Program: AppletViewer
Chapter 26 Using Java with Other Languages
1. Introduction
2. Running a Program
3. Running a Program and Capturing Its Output
4. Mixing Java and Scripts with BSF
5. Marrying Java and Perl
6. Blending in Native Code (C/C++)
7. Calling Java from Native Code
8. Program: DBM
Chapter Afterword

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Getting Started: Compiling, Running, and Debugging

Introduction

Compiling and Running Java: JDK

Editing and Compiling with a Color-Highlighting Editor

Compiling, Running, and Testing with an IDE

Using CLASSPATH Effectively

Using the com.darwinsys API Classes from This Book

Compiling the Source Code Examples from This Book

Automating Compilation with Ant

Running Applets

Dealing with Deprecation Warnings

Conditional Debugging Without #ifdef

Debugging Printouts

Maintaining Program Correctness with Assertions

Debugging with JDB

Unit Testing: Avoid the Need for Debuggers

Getting Readable Tracebacks

Finding More Java Source Code

Program: Debug

Chapter 2 Interacting with the Environment

Introduction

Getting Environment Variables

System Properties

Writing JDK Release-Dependent Code

Writing Operating System-Dependent Code

Using Extensions or Other Packaged APIs

Parsing Command-Line Arguments

Chapter 3 Strings and Things

Introduction

Taking Strings Apart with Substrings

Taking Strings Apart with StringTokenizer

Putting Strings Together with +, StringBuilder (JDK 1.5), and StringBuffer

Processing a String One Character at a Time

Aligning Strings

Converting Between Unicode Characters and Strings

Reversing a String by Word or by Character

Expanding and Compressing Tabs

Controlling Case

Indenting Text Documents

Entering Nonprintable Characters

Trimming Blanks from the End of a String

Parsing Comma-Separated Data

Program: A Simple Text Formatter

Program: Soundex Name Comparisons

Chapter 4 Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions

Introduction

Regular Expression Syntax

Using regexes in Java: Test for a Pattern

Finding the Matching Text

Replacing the Matched Text

Printing All Occurrences of a Pattern

Printing Lines Containing a Pattern

Controlling Case in Regular Expressions

Matching "Accented" or Composite Characters

Matching Newlines in Text

Program: Apache Logfile Parsing

Program: Data Mining

Program: Full Grep

Chapter 5 Numbers

Introduction

Checking Whether a String Is a Valid Number

Storing a Larger Number in a Smaller Number

Converting Numbers to Objects and Vice Versa

Taking a Fraction of an Integer Without Using Floating Point

Ensuring the Accuracy of Floating-Point Numbers

Comparing Floating-Point Numbers

Rounding Floating-Point Numbers

Formatting Numbers

Converting Between Binary, Octal, Decimal, and Hexadecimal

Operating on a Series of Integers

Working with Roman Numerals

Formatting with Correct Plurals

Generating Random Numbers

Generating Better Random Numbers

Calculating Trigonometric Functions

Taking Logarithms

Multiplying Matrices

Using Complex Numbers

Handling Very Large Numbers