Beginning Java (tm) SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional lead you through the maze of new and better Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 features. The first chapter sets the stage by introducing the Java SE 6 in the case of change of name, theme, overview, and sampling the new features. The nine remaining chapters organize features into the following categories: core libraries, GUI toolkits: AWT, GUI toolkits: Swing, internationalization, Java Database Connectivity, monitoring and management, networking, scripting, and security and web services. While exploring these chapters, you will find various topics that are useful and interesting: to introduce a new local with its own currency, creating a new JConsole plug-ins, creating scripted JEditorPane component, adopt and communicate with JavaFX Script and JRuby script from Java applications interact with the API Scripting, sign arbitrary XML document and validate XML signatures, signed documents, and access existing web services is an example. The first appendix introduces types of explanations for annotation processors, Common Annotations 1.0, and several tables that conveniently organize additional new types of explanations for the Java SE 6. And the last attachment to anticipate the Java SE 7 to see which features are most likely to make the cut, including closures, the Java Module System, and the Swing Application Framework.