Java Precisely, 2/e (Paperback)

Description:

This concise guide to the Java programming language, version 5.0, offers a quick reference for the reader who wants to know the language in greater detail than that provided by the standard text or language reference book. It presents the entire Java programming language and essential parts of the class libraries -- the collection classes and the input-output classes.

The second edition adds material on autoboxing of primitive types, string formatting, variable-arity methods, the enhanced for statement, enum types, generic types and methods, reflection, and meta-data annotations. It has been updated throughout to reflect the changes from Java 1.4 to Java 5.0. The final section summarizes and illustrates the new features of Java 5.0 and compares them to the C# programming language. General rules are shown on left-hand pages and corresponding examples on right-hand pages. All examples are fragments of legal Java programs and the complete ready-to-run example programs can be found at the book's Web site, http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~sestoft/javaprecisely/.

Peter Sestoft is Professor of Information Technology at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University and at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Table of Contents:

Preface	ix
	Notational Conventions	x
1.	Running Java: Compilation, Loading, and Execution	2
2.	Names and Reserved Names	2
3.	Java Naming Conventions	2
4.	Comments and Program Layout	2
5.	Types	4
6.	Variables, Parameters, Fields, and Scope	8
7.	Strings	10
8.	Arrays	16
9.	Classes	20
10.	Classes and Objects in the Computer	32
11.	Expressions	34
12.	Statements	46
13.	Interfaces	60
14.	Enum Types (Java 5.0)	62
15.	Exceptions, Checked and Unchecked	64
16.	Threads, Concurrent Execution, and Synchronization	66
17.	Compilation, Source Files, Class Names, and Class Files	72
18.	Packages and Jar Files	72
19.	Mathematical Functions	74
20.	String Builders and String Buffers	76
21.	Generic Types and Methods (Java 5.0)	78
22.	Generic Collections and Maps (Java 5.0)	92
23.	Input and Output	110
24.	Reflection	134
25.	Metadata Annotation (Java 5.0)	138
26.	What Is New in Java 5.0	140
	References	142
	Index	143