Java How to Program (4th Edition) [Paperback]

Harvey M. Deitel (Author), Paul J. Deitel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130341517 | ISBN-13: 978-0130341518 | Publication Date: August 8, 2001 | Edition: 4

For CS1 and other courses on programming in Java offered in departments of Computer Science, CIS, MIS, IT, Business, Engineering, and Continuing Education. Also appropriate for upper-level courses where the instructor wants a reference to the Java language. Written by the authors of the world's best-selling introductory C and C++ texts, this state-of-the-art guide examines one of today's hottest computer languages-Java; the first general-purpose, object-oriented language that is truly platform-independent. The latest Java 2 features are incorporated throughout this edition.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

The authoritative DEITEL^™ LIVE-CODE^™ introduction to programming with the Java^™ 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)

Java^™ has revolutionized software development with multimedia-intensive, platform-independent, object-oriented code for conventional, Internet-, Intranet- and Extranet-based applications and applets. This exciting new Fourth Edition of the world's best-selling Java textbook now has a companion volume—Advanced Java 2 Platform How to Program—which focuses on the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), presents advanced J2SE features and introduces the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME).

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized corporate training and content-creation organization specializing in Java, C++, C, Visual C#^™, Visual Basic^®, Visual C++^®, .NET, XML^™, Python, Perl, Internet, Web and object technologies. The Deitels are also the authors of the world's #1 C++ textbook—C++ How to Program, 3/e—and many other best sellers.

In Java How to Program, Fourth Edition the Deitels introduce the fundamentals of object-oriented programming in Java. The 4th edition includes an optional 180-page case study that introduces object-oriented design with the UML. Key 4th edition topics include:

• Applications/Applets
• Swing GUI/Event Handling
• Classes/Objects/Interfaces
• Encapsulation/Inner Classes
• OOP/Inheritance/Polymorphism
• Data Structures/Collections
• Files/Streams/Serialization
• Networking/Client/Server/Internet/Web
• Graphics/Java2D/Images/Animation
• JMF/Java Sound/Audio/Video/MIDI
• (Optional) OOD/UML/Design Patterns
• Exceptions/Multithreading

Java How to Program, Fourth Edition includes extensive pedagogic features:

• Hundreds of LIVE-CODE^™ programs with screen captures that show exact outputs
• Extensive World Wide Web and Internet resources to encourage further research
• Hundreds of tips, recommended practices and cautions—all marked with icons
  — Good Programming Practices
  —Software Engineering Observations
  —Performance Tips
  —Look-and-Feel Observations
  —Testing and Debugging Tips
  —Common Programming Errors

Java How to Program, Fourth Edition is the centerpiece of a family of resources for teaching and learning Java, including Web sites (http://www.prenhall.com/deitel and http://www.deitel.com) with the book's code examples (also on the enclosed CD) and other information for faculty, students and professionals; an optional interactive CD (Java 2 Multimedia Cyber Classroom) containing hyperlinks, audio walkthroughs of the code examples, solutions to about half the book's exercises and e-mail access to the authors at
[e-mail]

For information on worldwide corporate on-site seminars and Web-based training offered by Deitel & Associates, Inc., visit:
http://www.deitel.com

For information on current and forthcoming Deitel/Prentice Hall publications including How to Program Series (e-)books, Multimedia Cyber Classrooms, Complete Training Courses (that include Deitel books and Cyber Classrooms) and Web-Based Training Courses see the last few pages of this book.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Live in fragments no longer. Only connect.
Edward Morgan Forster

Welcome to Java How to Program, Fourth Edition and the exciting world of programming with the Java^™ 2 Platform, Standard Edition. This book is by an old guy and a young guy. The old guy (HMD; Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1967) has been programming and/or teaching programming for 40 years. The young guy (PJD; MIT 1991) has been programming and/or teaching programming for 22 years, and is both a Sun Certified Java Programmer and a Sun Certified Java Developer. The old guy programs and teaches from experience; the young guy does so from an inexhaustible reserve of energy. The old guy wants clarity; the young guy wants performance. The old guy seeks elegance and beauty; the young guy wants results. We got together to produce a book we hope you will find informative, challenging and entertaining.

In November 1995, we attended an Internet/World Wide Web conference in Boston to hear about Java. A Sun Microsystems representative spoke on Java in a packed convention ballroom. During that presentation, we saw the future of programming unfold. The first edition of Java How to Program was born at that moment and was published as the world's first Java computer science textbook.

The world of Java is evolving so rapidly that Java How to Program: Fourth Edition is being published less than five years after the first edition. This creates tremendous challenges and opportunities for us as authors, for our publisher—Prentice Hall, for instructors, for students and for professional people.

Before Java appeared, we were convinced that C++ would replace C as the dominant application development language and systems programming language for the next decade. However, the combination of the World Wide Web and Java now increases the prominence of the Internet in information systems strategic planning and implementation. Organizations want to integrate the Internet "seamlessly" into their information systems. Java is more appropriate than C++ for this purpose.

New Features in Java How to Program: Fourth Edition

This edition contains many new features and enhancements including:

• Full-Color Presentation. The book is now in full color. In the book's earlier two-color editions, the programs were displayed in black and the screen captures appeared in the second color. Full color enables readers to see sample outputs as they would appear on a color monitor. Also, we now syntax color all the Java code, as many of today's Java development environments do. Our syntax-coloring conventions are as follows:
  – comments appear in green
  – keywords appear in dark blue
  – constants and literal values appear in light blue
  – class, method and variable names appear in black
• "Code Washing." This is our own term for the process we used to convert all the programs in the book to a more open layout with enhanced commenting. We have grouped program code into small, well-documented pieces. This greatly improves code readability—an especially important goal for us given that this new edition contains more than 25,000 lines of code.
• Tune-Up. We performed a substantial tune-up of the book's contents based on our own notes from extensive teaching in our professional Java seminars. In addition, a distinguished team of reviewers read the third edition book and provided us with their comments and criticisms. There are literally thousands of fine-tuning improvements over the third edition.
• Thinking About Objects. This optional 180-page case study introduces object-oriented design (OOD) with the Unified Modeling Language (the UML). Many chapters in this edition end with a "Thinking About Objects" section in which we present a carefully paced introduction to object orientation. Our goal in these sections is to help you develop an object-oriented way of thinking to be able to design and implement more substantial systems. These sections also introduce you to the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The UML is a graphical language that allows people who build systems (e.g., software architects, systems engineers and programmers) to represent their object-oriented designs using a common notation. The "Thinking About Objects" section in Chapter 1 introduces basic concepts and terminology. Chapters 2-13, 15 and 22 (22 is on the CD) and Appendices G, H and I (also on the CD) include optional "Thinking About Objects" sections that present a substantial object-oriented elevator case study that applies the techniques of object-oriented design (OOD). Appendices G, H and I fully implement the case study design in Java code. This case study will help prepare you for the kinds of substantial projects you are likely to encounter in industry. If you are a student and your instructor does not plan to include this case study in your course, you may want to read the case study on your own. We believe it will be well worth your effort to walk through this large and challenging project. The material presented in the case-study sections reinforces the material covered in the corresponding chapters. You will experience a solid introduction to object-oriented design with the UML. Also, you will sharpen your code-reading skills by touring a carefully written and well-documented 3,465-line Java program that completely solves the problem presented in the case study.
• Discovering Design Patterns. These optional sections introduce popular object-oriented design patterns in use today. Most of the examples provided in this book contain fewer than 150 lines of code. Such small examples normally do not require an extensive design process. However, some programs, such as our optional elevator-simulation case study, are more complex—they can require thousands of lines of code. Larger systems, such as automated teller machines or air-traffic control systems, could contain millions, or even hundreds of millions, of lines of code. Effective design is crucial to the proper construction of such complex systems. Over the past decade, the software engineering industry has made significant progress in the field of design patterns—proven architectures for constructing flexible and maintainable object-oriented software. Using design patterns can substantially reduce the complexity of the design process. We present several design patterns in Java, but these design patterns can be implemented in any object-oriented language, such as C++, C# or Visual Basic. We describe several design patterns used by Sun Microsystems in the Java API. We use design patterns in many programs in this book, which we will identify in our "Discovering Design Patterns" sections. These programs provide examples of using design patterns to construct reliable, robust object-oriented software.
• Chapter 22 (on the CD), Java Media Framework (JMF) and JavaSound. This chapter introduces to Java's audio and video capabilities, enhancing our Chapter 18 multimedia coverage. With the Java Media Framework, a Java program can play audio and video media, and capture audio and video media from devices such as microphones and video cameras. The JMF enables Java developers to create streaming media applications, in which a Java program sends live or recorded audio or video feeds across the Internet to other computers, then applications on those other computers play the media as it arrives over the network. The JavaSound APIs enable programs to manipulate MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) sounds and captured media (i.e., media from a device such as a microphone). The chapter concludes with a substantial MIDI-processing application that enables users to record MIDI files or select MIDI files to play. Users can create their own MIDI music by interacting with the application's simulated synthesizer keyboard. The application can synchronize playing the notes in a MIDI file with pressing the keys on the simulated synthesizer keyboard—similar to a player piano. Note: Chapters 18 and 22 both provide substantial sets of exercises. Each chapter also has a special section containing additional interesting and challenging multimedia projects. These are intended only as suggestions for major projects. Solutions are not provided for these additional exercises in either the Instructor's Manual or the Java 2 Multimedia Cyber Classroom.
• Enhanced TCP/IP-Based Networking. We include a new capstone example in Chapter 17 that introduces multicasting for sending information to groups of network clients. This Deitel Messenger case study emulates many of today's popular instant-messaging applications that enable computer users to communicate with friends, relatives and co-workers over the Internet. This 1130-line, multithreaded, client/server Java program uses most of the techniques presented to this point in the book.
• Appendix J (on the CD), Career Opportunities. This detailed appendix introduces career services on the Internet. We explore online career services from the employer and employee's perspective. We suggest sites on which you can submit applications, search for jobs and review applicants (if you are interested in hiring someone). We also review services that build recruiting pages directly into e-businesses. One of our reviewers told us that he had just gone through a job search largely using the Internet and this chapter would have really expanded his search dramatically.
• Appendix K (on the CD), Unicode. This appendix overviews the Unicode Standard. As computer systems evolved worldwide, computer vendors developed numeric representations of character sets and special symbols for the local languages spoken in different countries. In some cases, different representations were developed for the same languages. Such disparate character sets made communication between computer systems difficult. Java supports the Unicode Standard (maintained by a non-profit organization called the Unicode Consortium), which defines a single character set with unique numeric values for characters and special symbols in most spoken languages. This appendix discusses the Unicode Standard, overviews the Unicode Consortium Web site (unicode.org) and shows a Java example that displays "Welcome" in eight different languages!
• Java 2 Plug-In Moved to Chapter 3, Introduction to Applets. Students enjoy seeing immediate results as they execute their Java programs. This is difficult if those programs are Java applets that execute in Web browsers. Most of today's Web browsers (with the exception of Netscape Navigator 6) do not support Java 2 applets directly, so students must test their applet programs with the applet-viewer utility. Sun Microsystems provides the Java 2 Plug-in to enable Java 2 applets to execute in a Web browser that does not support Java 2. The discussion of the Java Plug-in walks the student through the steps necessary to execute an applet in today's Web browsers.
• Chapter 22 and Appendices E-K on the CD. There are so many topics covered in this new edition that we could not fit them all in the book! On the CD that accompanies this book, you will find the following chapter and appendices: Chapter 22, Java Media Framework (JMF) and Java Sound; Appendix E, Number Systems; Appendix F, Creating HTML Documentation with javadoc; Appendix G, Elevator Events and Listener Interfaces; Appendix H, Elevator Model; Appendix I, Elevator View; Appendix J, Career Opportunities; and Appendix K, Unicode.
• Chapters Moved to Advanced Java^™ 2 Platform How to Program. Four chapters from Java How to Program, Third Edition have been moved to our new book Advanced Java 2 Platform How to Program and greatly enhanced. These chapters are: Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Servlets, Remote Method Invocation and JavaBeans. Advanced Java 2 Platform How to Program covers each of these topics in more depth. We present the Table of Contents of Advanced Java 2 Platform How to Program shortly.

Some Notes to Instructors

A World of Object Orientation
When we wrote the first edition of Java How to Program, universities were still emphasizing procedural programming in languages like Pascal and C. The leading-edge courses were using object-oriented C++, but these courses were generally mixing a substantial amount of procedural programming with object-oriented programming—something that C++ lets you do, but Java does not. By the third edition of Java How to Program, many universities were switching from C++ to Java in their introductory curricula, and instructors were emphasizing a pure object-oriented programming approach. In parallel with this activity, the software engineering community was standardizing its approach to modeling object-oriented systems with the UML, and the design-patterns movement was taking shape. Java How to Program has many audiences, so we designed the book to be customizable. In particular, we included more than 200 pages of optional material that introduces object-oriented design, the UML and design patterns, and presents a substantial case study in object-oriented design and programming. This material is carefully distributed throughout the book to enable instructors to emphasize "industrial-strength" object-oriented design in their courses.

Students Like Java
Students are highly motivated by the fact that they are learning a leading-edge language (Java) and a leading-edge programming paradigm (object-oriented programming) that will be immediately useful to them while in the university environment and when they head into a world in which the Internet and the World Wide Web have a massive prominence. Students quickly discover that they can do great things with Java, so they are willing to put in the extra effort. Java helps programmers unleash their creativity. We see this in the Java courses Deitel & Associates, Inc. teaches. Once our students enter lab, we can't hold them back. They eagerly experiment and explore portions of the Java class libraries that we haven't as yet covered in class. They produce applications that go well beyond anything we've ever tried in our introductory C and C++ courses. And they tell us about projects they "can't wait" to try after the course.

Focus of the Book
Our goal was clear—produce a Java textbook for introductory university-level courses in computer programming for students with little or no programming experience, yet offer the depth and the rigorous treatment of theory and practice demanded by traditional, upper-level courses and that satisfies professionals' needs. To meet these goals, we produced a comprehensive book, because our text patiently teaches the basics of computer programming and of the Java language (i.e., data types, control structures, methods, arrays, recursion and other "traditional" programming topics); presents key programming paradigms, including object-based programming, object-oriented programming, event-driven programming and concurrent programming; and provides an extensive treatment of the Java class libraries.

Evolution of Java How to Program
Java How to Program (first edition) was the world's first university computer science textbook on Java. We wrote it fresh on the heels of C How to Program, Second Edition and C++ How to Program. Hundreds of thousands of university students and professional people worldwide have learned C, C++ and Java from these texts. Upon publication in August, 2001 Java How to Program, Fourth Edition will be used in hundreds of universities and thousands of corporations and government organizations worldwide. Deitel & Associates, Inc. taught Java courses internationally to thousands of students as we were writing the various editions of Java How to Program. We carefully monitored the effectiveness of these courses and tuned the material accordingly.

Conceptualization of Java
We believe in Java. Its conceptualization (and public release in 1995) by Sun Microsystems, the creators of Java, was brilliant. Sun based the new language on two of the world's most widely used implementation languages, C and C++. This immediately gave Java a huge pool of highly skilled programmers who were implementing most of the world's new operating systems, communications systems, database systems, personal computer applications and systems software. Sun removed the messier, more complex and error-prone C/ C++ features (such as pointers, operator overloading and multiple inheritance, among others). They kept the language concise by removing special-purpose features that were used by only small segments of the programming community. They made the language truly portable to be appropriate for implementing Internet-based and World-Wide-Web-based applications, and they built in the features people really need such as strings, graphics, graphical user interface components, exception handling, multithreading, multimedia (audio, images, animation and video), file processing, database processing, Internet and World Wide Web-based client/server networking and distributed computing, and prepackaged data structures. Then they made the language available at no charge to millions of potential programmers worldwide.

2.5 Million Java Developers
Java was promoted in 1995 as a means of adding "dynamic content" to World-Wide-Web pages. Instead of Web pages with only text and static graphics, people's Web pages could now "come alive" with audios, videos, animations, interactivity—and soon, three-dimensional imaging. But we saw much more in Java than this. Java's features are precisely what businesses and organizations need to meet today's information-processing requirements. So we immediately viewed Java as having the potential to become one of the world's key general-purpose programming languages. In fact, Java has revolutionized software development with multimedia-intensive, platform-independent, object-oriented code for conventional, Internet-, Intranet- and Extranet-based applications and applets. Java now has 2.5 million developers worldwide—a stunning accomplishment given that it has only been available publicly for six years. No other programming language has ever acquired such a large developer base so quickly.

Enabling Multimedia-Based Applications and Communications
The computer field has never seen anything like the Internet/World Wide Web/Java "explosion" occurring today. People want to communicate. People need to communicate. Sure they have been doing that since the dawn of civilization, but computer communications have been mostly limited to digits, alphabetic characters and special characters. Today, we are in the midst of a multimedia revolution. People want to transmit pictures and they want those pictures to be in color. They want to transmit voices, sounds, audio clips and full-motion color video (and they want nothing less than DVD quality). Eventually, people will insist on three-dimensional, moving-image transmission. Our current flat, two-dimensional televisions will eventually be replaced with three-dimensional versions that turn our living rooms into "theaters-in-the-round." Actors will perform their roles as if we were watching live theater. Our living rooms will be turned into miniature sports stadiums. Our business offices will enable video conferencing among colleagues half a world apart as if they were sitting around one conference table. The possibilities are intriguing and Java is playing a key role in turning many of them into reality.

Teaching Approach

Java How to Program, Fourth Edition contains a rich collection of examples, exercises, and projects drawn from many fields to provide the student with a chance to solve interesting real-world problems. The book concentrates on the principles of good software engineering and stresses program clarity. We avoid arcane terminology and syntax specifications in favor of teaching by example. Our code examples have been tested on popular Java platforms. We are educators who teach edge-of-the-practice topics in industry classrooms worldwide. The text emphasizes good pedagogy.

Learning Java via the Live-Code^™ Approach
The book is loaded with live-code^™ examples. This is the focus of the way we teach and write about programming, and the focus of each of our multimedia Cyber Classrooms and Web-based training courses as well. Each new concept is presented in the context of a complete, working Java program (application or applet) immediately followed by one or more screen captures showing the program's output. We call this style of teaching and writing our live-code^™ approach. We use the language to teach the language. Reading these programs (25,000+ lines of code) is much like entering and running them on a computer.

Java and Swing from Chapter Two!
Java How to Program, Fourth Edition "jumps right in" with object-oriented programming, applications and the Swing-style GUI components from Chapter 2! People tell us this is a "gutsy" move, but Java students really want to "cut to the chase." There is great stuff to be done in Java so let's get right to it! Java is not trivial by any means, but it's fun to program with and students can see immediate results. Students can get graphical, animated, multimedia-based, audio-intensive, multithreaded, database-intensive, network-based programs running quickly through Java's extensive class libraries of "reusable components." They can implement impressive projects. They are typically more creative and productive in a one- or two-semester course than in C and C++ introductory courses.

World Wide Web Access
All of the code for Java How to Program is on the CD that accompanies this book and is available on the Internet at the Deitel & Associates, Inc. Web site http://www.deitel.com. Please run each program as you read the text. Make changes to the code examples and see what happens. See how the Java compiler "complains" when you make various kinds of errors. Immediately see the effects of making changes to the code. It's a great way to learn programming by doing programming. This is copyrighted material. Feel free to use it as you study Java, but you may not republish any portion of it without explicit permission from the authors and Prentice Hall.

Objectives
Each chapter begins with a statement of objectives. This tells the student what to expect and gives the student an opportunity, after reading the chapter, to determine if he or she has met these objectives. It is a confidence builder and a source of positive reinforcement.

Quotations
The learning objectives are followed by quotations. Some are humorous, some are philosophical, and some offer interesting insights. Our students enjoy relating the quotations to the chapter material. The quotations are worth a "second look" after you read each chapter.

Outline
The chapter Outline helps the student approach the material in top-down fashion. This, too, helps students anticipate what is to come and set a comfortable and effective learning pace.

25,576 Lines of Code in 197 Example Programs (with Program Outputs)
We present Java features in the context of complete, working Java programs. The programs range from just a few lines of code to substantial examples with several hundred lines of code (and 3,465 lines of code for the optional object-oriented elevator simulator example). Students should use the program code from the CD that accompanies the book or download the code from our Web site (http://www.deitel.com) and run each program while studying that program in the text.

545 Illustrations/Figures
An abundance of charts, line drawings and program outputs is included. The discussion of control structures, for example, features carefully drawn flowcharts. Note: We do not teach flowcharting as a program development tool, but we do use a brief, flowchart-oriented presentation to specify the precise operation of each of Java's control structures.

605 Programming Tips
We have included programming tips to help students focus on important aspects of program development. We highlight hundreds of these tips in the form of Good Programming Practices, Common Programming Errors, Testing and Debugging Tips, Performance Tips, Portability Tips, Software Engineering Observations and Look-and-Feel Observations. These tips and practices represent the best we have gleaned from a combined six decades of programming and teaching experience. One of our students—a mathematics major—told us that she feels this approach is like the highlighting of axioms, theorems, and corollaries in mathematics books; it provides a basis on which to build good software.

• 97 Good Programming Practices
  When we teach introductory courses, we state that the "buzzword" of each course is "clarity, " and we highlight as Good Programming Practices techniques for writing programs that are clearer, more understandable, more debuggable, and more maintainable.
• 199 Common Programming Errors
  Students learning a language tend to make certain errors frequently. Focusing on these Common Programming Errors helps students avoid making the same errors and shortens lines outside instructors' offices during office hours!
• 46 Testing and Debugging Tips
  When we first designed this "tip type, " we thought we would use it strictly to tell people how to test and debug Java programs. In fact, many of the tips describe aspects of Java that reduce the likelihood of "bugs" and thus simplify the testing and debugging process.
• 67 Performance Tips
  In our experience, teaching students to write clear and understandable programs is by far the most important goal for a first programming course. But students want to write the programs that run the fastest, use the least memory, require the smallest number of keystrokes, or dazzle in other nifty ways. Students really care about performance. They want to know what they can do to "turbo charge" their programs. So we have included 67 Performance Tips that highlight opportunities for improving program performance—making programs run faster or minimizing the amount of memory that they occupy.
• 24 Portability Tips
  One of Java's "claims to fame" is "universal" portability, so some programmers assume that if they implement an application in Java, the application will automatically be "perfectly" portable across all Java platforms. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. We include Portability Tips to help students write portable code and to provide insights on how Java achieves its high degree of portability. We had many more portability tips in our books, C How to Program and C++ How to Program. We needed fewer Portability Tips in Java How to Program because Java is designed to be portable top-to-bottom (for the most part)—much less effort is required on the Java programmer's part to achieve portability than with C or C++.
• 134 Software Engineering Observations
  The object-oriented programming paradigm requires a complete rethinking about the way we build software systems. Java is an effective language for performing good software engineering. The Software Engineering Observations highlight architectural and design issues that affect the construction of software systems, especially large-scale systems. Much of what the student learns here will be useful in upper-level courses and in industry as the student begins to work with large, complex real-world systems.
• 38 Look-and-Feel Observations
  We provide Look-and-Feel Observations to highlight graphical user interface conventions. These observations help students design their own graphical user interfaces in conformance with industry norms.

Summary (983 Summary bullets)
Each chapter ends with additional pedagogical devices. We present a thorough, bullet-list-style summary of the chapter. On average, there are 42 summary bullets per chapter. This helps the students review and reinforce key concepts.

Terminology (2171 Terms)
We include in a Terminology section an alphabetized list of the important terms defined in the chapter—again, further reinforcement. On average, there are 95 terms per chapter.

397 Self-Review Exercises and Answers (Count Includes Separate Parts)
Extensive self-review exercises and answers are included for self-study. This gives the student a chance to build confidence with the material and prepare for the regular exercises. Students should be encouraged to do all the self-review exercises and check their answers.

779 Exercises (Count Includes Separate Parts)
Each chapter concludes with a set of exercises including simple recall of important terminology and concepts; writing individual Java statements; writing small portions of Java methods and classes; writing complete Java methods, classes, applications and applets; and writing major term projects. The large number of exercises across a wide variety of areas enables instructors to tailor their courses to the unique needs of their audiences and to vary course assignments each semester. Instructors can use these exercises to form homework assignments, short quizzes and major examinations. The solutions for most of the exercises are included on the Instructor's Manual CD that is available only to instructors through their Prentice-Hall representatives. NOTE: Please do not write to us requesting the instructor's manual. Distribution of this publication is strictly limited to college professors teaching from the book. Instructors may obtain the solutions manual only from their regular Prentice Hall representatives. We regret that we cannot provide the solutions to professionals. Solutions to approximately half of the exercises are included on the Java Multimedia Cyber Classroom, Fourth Edition CD, which also is part of The Complete Java 2 Training Course. For ordering instructions, please see the last few pages of this book or visit http://www.deitel.com.

Approximately 5300 Index Entries (with approximately 9500 Page References)
We have included an extensive index at the back of the book. This helps the student find any term or concept by keyword. The index is useful to people reading the book for the first time and is especially useful to practicing programmers who use the book as a reference. The terms in the Terminology sections generally appear in the index (along with many more index items from each chapter). Students can use the index with the Terminology sections to be sure they have covered the key material of each chapter.

"Double Indexing" of Java Live-Code^™ Examples and Exercises
Java How to Program has 197 live-code^™ examples and 1176 exercises (including parts). Many of the exercises are challenging problems or projects requiring substantial effort. We have "double indexed" the live-code^™ examples. For every Java source-code program in the book, we took the file name with the .java extension, such as LoadAudioAndPlay.java and indexed it both alphabetically (in this case under "L") and as a subindex item under "Examples." This makes it easier to find examples using particular features. The more substantial exercises, such as "Maze Generator and Walker," are indexed both alphabetically (in this case under "M") and as subindex items under "Exercises."

Bibliography
An extensive bibliography of books, articles and Sun Microsystems Java 2 documentation is included to encourage further reading.

Software Included with Java How to Program, Fourth Edition

There are a number of for-sale Java products available. However, you do not need them to get started with Java. We wrote Java How to Program, Fourth Edition using only the Java 2 Software Development Kit (J2SDK). For your convenience, Sun's J2SDK version 1.3.1 is included on the CD that accompanies this book. The J2SDK also can be downloaded from the Sun Microsystems Java Web site java.sun.com. With Sun's cooperation, we also were able to include on the CD a powerful Java integrated development environment (IDE)–Sun Microsystems' Forté for Java Community Edition.

Forté for Java Community Edition is a professional IDE written in Java that includes a graphical user interface designer, code editor, compiler, visual debugger and more. J2SDK 1.3.1 must be installed before installing Forté for Java Community Edition. If you have any questions about using this software, please read the introductory Forté documentation on the CD. We will provide additional information on our Web site http://www.deitel.com.

The CD also contains the book's examples and an HTML Web page with links to the Deitel & Associates, Inc. Web site, the Prentice Hall Web site and the many Web sites listed in the appendices. If you have access to the Internet, this Web page can be loaded into your Web browser to give you quick access to all the resources. Finally, the CD contains Chapter 22 and Appendices E-K.

Ancillary Package for Java How to Program, Fourth Edition

Java How to Program, Fourth Edition has extensive ancillary materials for instructors teaching from the book. The Instructor's Manual CD contains solutions to the vast majority of the end-of-chapter exercises and a test bank of multiple choice questions (approximately 2 per book section). In addition, we provide PowerPoint^® slides containing all the code and figures in the text. You are free to customize these slides to meet your own classroom needs. Prentice Hall provides a Companion Web Site (http://www.prenhall.com/deitel) that includes resources for instructors and students. For instructors, the Web site has a Syllabus Manager for course planning, links to the PowerPoint slides and reference materials from the appendices of the book (such as the operator precedence chart, character sets and Web resources). For students, the Web site provides chapter objectives, true/false exercises with instant feedback, chapter highlights and reference materials. NOTE: Please do not write to us requesting the instructor's manual. Distribution of this publication is strictly limited to college professors teaching from the book. Instructors may obtain the solutions manual only from their regular Prentice Hall representatives. We regret that we cannot provide the solutions to professionals.

Java 2 Multimedia Cyber Classroom, Fourth Edition (CD and Web-Based Training Versions) and The Complete Java 2 Training Course, Fourth Edition

We have prepared an interactive, CD-based, software version of Java How to Program, Fourth Edition called the Java 2 Multimedia Cyber Classroom, Fourth Edition. It is loaded with features for learning and reference. The Cyber Classroom is wrapped with the textbook at a discount in The Complete Java 2 Training Course, Fourth Edition. If you already have the book and would like to purchase the Java 2 Multimedia Cyber Classroom, Fourth Edition separately, please visit www.informit.com/cyberclassrooms. The ISBN# for the Java 2 Multimedia Cyber Classroom, Fourth Edition is 0-13-064935-x. All Deitel Cyber Classrooms are generally available in CD and Web-based training formats.

The CD has an introduction with the authors overviewing the Cyber Classroom's features. The 197 live-code^™ example Java programs in the textbook truly "come alive" in the Cyber Classroom. If you are viewing a program and want to execute it, you simply click on the lightning bolt icon and the program will run. You will immediately see—and hear for the audio-based multimedia programs—the program's outputs. If you want to modify a program and see and hear the effects of your changes, simply click the floppy-disk icon that causes the source code to be "lifted off' the CD and "dropped into" one of your own directories so you can edit the text, recompile the program and try out your new version. Click the audio icon and Paul Deitel will talk about the program and "walk you through" the code.

The Cyber Classroom also provides navigational aids including extensive hyperlinking. The Cyber Classroom is browser based, so it remembers recent sections you have visited and allows you to move forward or backward among these sections. The thousands of index entries are hyperlinked to their text occurrences. You can key in a term using the "find" feature and the Cyber Classroom will locate its occurrences throughout the text. The Table of Contents entries are "hot"—so clicking a chapter name takes you to that chapter.

Students tell us that they particularly like the hundreds of solved problems from the textbook that are included with the Cyber Classroom. Studying and running these extra programs is a great way for students to enhance their learning experience.

Students and professional users of our Cyber Classrooms tell us they like the interactivity and that the Cyber Classroom is an effective reference because of the extensive hyperlinking and other navigational features. We received an email from a person who said that he lives "in the boonies" and cannot take a live course at a university, so the Cyber Classroom was the solution to his educational needs.

Professors tell us that their students enjoy using the Cyber Classroom, spend more time on the course and master more of the material than in textbook-only courses. We have published (and will be publishing) many other Cyber Classroom and Complete Training Course products. For a complete list of the available and forthcoming Cyber Classrooms and Complete Training Courses, see the Deitel^™ Series page at the beginning of this book or the product listing and ordering information at the end of this book. You can also visit http://www.deitel.com or http://www.prenhall.com/deitel for more information.

Advanced Java^™ 2 Platform How to Program

Our companion book—Advanced Java 2 Platform How to Program—focuses on the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), presents advanced Java 2 Platform Standard Edition features and introduces the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME). This book is intended for developers and upper-level university students in advanced courses who already know Java and want a deeper treatment and understanding of the language. The book features our signature live-code^™ approach of complete working programs and contains over 37,000 lines of code. The programs are more substantial than those presented in Java How to Program, Fourth Edition. The book expands the coverage of Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), remote method invocation (RMI), servlets and JavaBeans from Java How to Program, Fourth Edition. The book also covers emerging and more advanced Java technologies of concern to enterprise application developers. The Table of Contents for Advanced Java 2 Platform How to Program is: Chapters—Introduction; Advanced Swing Graphical User Interface Components; Model-View-Controller; Graphics Programming with Java 2D and Java 3D; Case Study: A Java2D Application; JavaBeans Component Model; Security; Java Database Connectivity (JDBC); Servlets; Java Server Pages (JSP); Case Study: Servlet and JSP Bookstore; Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) and Wireless Internet; Remote Method Invocation (RMI); Session Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) and Distributed Transactions; Entity EJBs; Java Message Service (JMS) and Message-Driven EJBs; Enterprise Java Case Study: Architectural Overview; Enterprise Java Case Study: Presentation and Controller Logic; Enterprise Java Case Study: Business Logic Part 1; Enterprise Java Case Study: Business Logic Part 2; Application Servers; Jini; JavaSpaces; Jiro; Java Management Extensions (JMX); Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA): Part 1; Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA): Part 2; Peer-to-Peer Networking; Appendices—Creating Markup with XML; XML Document Type Definitions; XML Document Object Model (DOM); XSL: Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations; Downloading and Installing J2EE 1.2.1; Java Community Process (JCP); Java Native Interface (JNI); Career Opportunities; Unicode.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1546 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 4 edition (August 8, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130341517
• ISBN-13: 978-0130341518
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #782,774 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good for learning to program Java. Bad for Reference., May 10, 2002

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tkman (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Java How to Program (4th Edition) (Paperback)

If you are buying a book you need to ensure you choose the appropriate one. This is not a Java reference book. This is not a learn java in 24 hours or 21 days type [thing].

If you are an experienced programmer, and want to learn Java, or have hacked around with Java and want to get a really good introduction to lots of the core aspects of java then this book is really good.

The book teaches not just the syntax of Java instructions, it does more. It introduces the reader to OO style programming from a Java perspective. It encourages the reader to understand UML and the common notation used by OO designers. It also encourages readers to take advantage of experienced people by referring to Patterns.

The bad. It is not a reference book. Don't buy this if you want to look up a snippet of code around a specific instruction or Java concept. There are better books for reference use.

Overall this is an excellent book for learning to program with Java and doing so with an OO perspective and using common OO design notation.

All the exercises run without bugs, and are meaningful for what they are trying to demonstrate.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Deitel Java Books are great!, January 7, 2002

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DarylT (Birmingham, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Java How to Program (4th Edition) (Paperback)

I've worked my way through the 3rd Edition and am working on the Advanced volume and the new material in this volume. I like the level of detail provided! After finishing a chapter I feel as though I have a very good start on each topic and (between the two volumes) just about every important topic is covered. I find this book to be clearly written but challenging. The exercises at the end of each chapter help me to find out if I've really learned the material. I like the way that each file is explained in detail in a very structured and systematic way. Everyone should document code as well as the Dietels do! I like the way that this version focuses on Design Patterns and clearly explains the Archetecture of each program using the UML. Another good thing I can say about these books is that I haven't found any code that dosen't compile and run in Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Mac OS/X! The tools that come with the book are useful, but the Advanced volume required me to download most of the APIs from the SUN.com web site.I've asked several questions via e-mail and have gotten a great response from P.D. himself! Yes, they cost more than the others and can require an investment of time to complete! However, I have found them to be extremely helpful!!!!!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on Java Programming, March 2, 2002

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Anders Sparén (Stockholm, Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Java How to Program (4th Edition) (Paperback)

I think "Java - How to Program" by Deitel & Deitel is an excellent book for learning Java programming. The book starts with a short introduction to computers, the Internet and the World Wide Web, and then focuses on Java applications and Java applets. It also gives an introduction to object-based and object-oriented programming, multithreading, servlets, networking and JavaBeans.

Deitel & Deitel teach by live-code examples. They first show you the code of an example, then a screen dump of what it will look like on your computer, and finally explain the code. Every chapter includes tips on good programming practices and warnings for common programming errors. Each chapter ends with a summary, terminology, and performance, testing and debugging tips, software engineering observations, as well as a large number of exercises. On the CD included, you will find Internet links to various sites with Java resources, software, as well as an Internet link to the code of the examples.

For me as a computer layman, I am a chemist by profession; the book has been extremely useful as an introduction to Java programming. I read the 3rd edition of the book, but now a later version is available.