Advanced Techniques for Java Developers [Paperback]

Daniel J. Berg (Author), J. Steven Fritzinger (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471182087 | ISBN-13: 978-0471182085 | Publication Date: January 1998

Leading Java experts show you how to design and develop Java applications using the latest Java technologies included in JDK^TM 1.1 and JDK^TM 1.2

Are you an experienced Java programmer ready to take the leap from applet programming to building full-blown business applications? Then this is the book for you. The authors and contributors show you techniques using the latest Java technologies that dramatically extend the capabilities of Java. This book includes the latest in Java Media, RMI, JDBC, JFC, JavaBeans^TM, security, and more. This is the first book where Java experts come together to show you what technology and techniques they use to produce real-world Java applications.

Using numerous sample programs (included on the CD-ROM), this book provides you with cutting-edge techniques for building sophisticated applications using the latest Java technologies. Concentrating on topics of vital interest to programmers who need to write mission-critical business applications, the authors detail and explain the following:

• Advanced I/O and networking
• Concurrent programming with threads
• JavaBeans^TM
• Advanced security techniques
• Java^TM foundation classes
• Java Media
• JavaServer^TM environment
• Java database connectivity
• Java Network Computers and JavaOS^TM

On the CD-ROM you'll find:

• Source code you can use to build your own applications
• Java documentation
• The Java City multimedia demo
• Try-and-Buy versions of Java^TM Studio^TM and Java^TM WorkShop^TM.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

For a roadmap to the future of Java, look to Advanced Techniques for Java Developers; it provides a wide-ranging view of Java used for enterprise development, including network computing. Written for both Information Services (IS) managers and developers alike, this title provides a distinctively Sun-centric view of the potentially bright future of Java.

The book opens with a tour of some of the features of the new Java 2 platform, including its Swing classes. It also provides background on the Java 2-D and Java 3-D APIs for multimedia. (Though the Java 3-D API is still under construction, the authors create a virtual world using a Moving Pictures Experts Group [MPEG] viewer instead.)

For developers, one of the best sections here shows how easy it is to load URLs using Java's networking classes. For IS managers, the authors use their mainframe expertise to show that Java is ready for the enterprise with key technologies such as Remote Invocation Method (RMI), Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) and CORBA, Java Database Connection (JDBC), servlets, and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs). Short examples are used to show off many of these APIs, but it's the background material on multitiered architectures and enterprise computing that is the strongest here. The authors do a fine job of comparing the advantages of each approach for using Java in distributed systems.

Later the book presents the new policy-based security mechanism in Java 2 and offers some worthwhile material on using advanced features of Java threads. Final sections argue for the superiority of network computers, including lowered total cost of ownership. Spinning a distinctively pro-Java future, this guide to today's latest Sun technologies will serve any IS manager or developer with an interest in Java in the enterprise. --Richard Dragan --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Publisher

Written by a Java guru from Sun, this official Java-SIG book teaches experienced Java programmers the ins and outs of advanced techniques such as advance networking and remote access, distributed object programming, parallel programming, and advanced security techniques. CD-ROM includes sourcecode and useful software that readers can download to incorporate and build their own programs.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471182087
• ISBN-13: 978-0471182085
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,353,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Java Overview, August 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced Techniques for Java Developers, Revised Edition (Paperback)

Advanced Techniques for Java Developers provides a good overivew of the newest Java technologies. Topics covered include JFC, Java Media, JavaBeans, EJB, RMI, JDBC, Servlets, Threads, Security, JNI, Network Computers and the Java OS. This breadth of topics gives the reader a good idea of where Java development is and what Java can do.

The sections on JFC and 2-D/3-D media provided me with a needed update on the features of the Java 2 release. The also provides some good descriptions of the inner-workings of Java and the reasoning behind its design. This especially applies to the sections on Security and Threads.

My main complaint about the book relates to the amount of "Preaching" and "Advertising" it does. At one point, the authors devote page after page to the advantages of OO programming and a Three Tiered Architecture. I think anyone reading an "Advanced Java" book would already see the advantages. Two chapters are devoted to promoting Network Computers and the subsequent description of the JavaOS. I found little value in these chapters.

If you want to know what Java can do for you, then get this book. If you've already decided to use Java in you development and you need a detailed guide to a certain package (RMI, Servlets, Swing etc.) then this book won't meet all your needs.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The title should be Advanced Techniques for Managers., August 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced Techniques for Java Developers (Paperback)

If you are a serious developer, aviod this book. It does not provide any advanced techniques, the samples are limited and there is nothing advanced about them. Review the sample code that is provided for JDBC transactions and you will understand this point. However managers who need information on Java in more details that the differnt magazines provide, this book may be for them.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A cut above the rest, June 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced Techniques for Java Developers (Paperback)

There are thousands of books on Java and some are very good, for example ThinkinginJava, but this book is a cut above the rest in terms of how it explains the deep details of JVM and the Java design concepts, it also is amongst the first to discuss some very advanced java topics prior to any other. It is as if the javasoft developers wrote this book.