new coverage this book includes these enhancements and many other significant: regular expressions, high-performance New I / O API; chained exceptions, logging, and other techniques to build more reliable code, and Preference Class, a new cross-platform Java repository for configuration information. Horstmann presents a discussion of state-of-the-art object-oriented development of Java reflection, and proxies, updated coverage of Swing user interface development, the definitive introduction to the inner class and the Java event model, a thorough explanation of the flow of I / O and object serialization, and more .