Peter van der Linden newly revised Just Java 2, Fifth Edition adds a lot of updated material and many more personalities who are capable of tutorials aimed at beginning developers of Java, preferably with some previous programming experience. While early editions of this title certainly deliver the goods, the new edition beefs up the author's personal touch. While most computer books program today does not even provide syntax for the code, this one went even further, with attractive graphics and effective use of bold text to bring the key points, as well as to make it easier to use as a reference for getting into important API quickly. In addition to the production values are excellent (and something of the "edge" free-spirited culture of programmers), this book covers all the bases for client-side Java in depth enough. His tour of the patient and clear details of Java syntax and basic features of the language is just one of the best. Coverage of advanced topics (including APIs that appear in the new J2SE 1.4 standard) including the new I / O (or "NIO"), regular expressions, and XML in Java all bring this text up to date Dragan. - Richard Topics covered: Introduction and advantages of the Java platform (versions of Java and "future-proofing" software); tutorial for object-oriented programming (including constructors, per-instance, and class members each); types of Java executables; Java language tutorial , keywords and data types, names, arrays, operators, inheritance and polymorphism, iteration and flow control, exceptions, statement; Java interfaces explained, packages and visibility rules, the Java Character class in depth, threads and synchronization, exclusion together; garbage collection ; quick introduction to design patterns, Java file I / O (including files, reading and writing text, and binary values); advanced I / O (including random file access); J2SE 1.4 new I / O (NIO) package ( including memory-mapped files); byte order big-endian and little-explained; Java support for regular expressions, Java collections, utility classes (including math and calendar classes); introduction to servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSPS); Java networking (including sockets , e-mail, and a custom multithreaded HTTP server), Remote Method Invocation (RMI); Swing GUI event handling; the basics of applets, tutorials Swing components, layout, JavaBeans for custom UI objects, Java security, tutorial for SQL and databases; JDBC basics, introduction to XML (including DOM and SAX support), and attachment on AWT control program.