Press Release
March 24, 1999
The Power of Java's I/O Explored in New O'Reilly Release
SEBASTOPOL, CA--"Almost every serious Java program eventually
makes use of I/O for one purpose or another," says Elliot Rusty
Harold, author of the just-off-the-press book
Java I/O. "While
text book examples often limit themselves to command line
arguments and system.out.println(), real world programs and real
world programmers need to write files, open sockets, encrypt data,
talk to serial port devices, communicate with databases and do a
whole hell of a lot more. Using well designed I/O as opposed to
System.out.println() is one of the distinguishing factors between
amateur and professional programmers."
Java is no longer just a tool for creating animated icons on web pages.
It's a full-fledged programming language that is often the first choice
for many coders today. Java's clean structure, automated memory
management, and webcentric design makes it one of the fastest
development tools around. Mastery of the Java I/O is a crucial skill
for a Java programmer. "Unfortunately," explains Harold, "precisely
because Java I/O is structured so differently from I/O in the languages
most of us grew up with, many programmers don't realize how simple
and powerful it really is. Programmers try to force Java I/O to fit
into the model of a non-internationalized language like C or Pascal,
and it doesn't. Once you understand how the different languages
perform the logically separate functions, and how all the layers
connect together, then performing operations that would be
unmanageably complex in other languages, becomes almost trivial."
Until now, there was little published that went beyond the most basic of
streams. Java professionals certainly are familiar with these streams,
but did you know that there's a CryptInputStream for reading
encrypted data? And a ZipOutputStream for automatically compressing
data? Do you know how to use buffered streams effectively to make
your I/O operations more efficient?
Java I/O
tells you all you need
to know about streams -and probably more. It also covers essential
subjects such character sets and formatting; and how to control
number formatting, use characters aside from the standard (but outdated)
ASCII character set, and get a head start on writing truly multilingual
software (Java's support of the UNICODE standard allows you to do I/O
in virtually any language).
For more information on this new book, including Table of Contents and index,
see: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaio/
Read an interview of the author at:
http://java.oreilly.com/news/harold_0399.html
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Java I/O
By Elliotte Rusty Harold
1st Edition March 1999 (US)
1-56592-485-1, 596 pages, $32.95 (US$)
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