Java Programming Practical Guide

This volume is the Java installment of Tsinghua University Press's "Development Guide Series," written by Liu Xin, Guan Lei and others and published in September 2014. It runs to 22 chapters in 8 parts and, taking the J2SE platform and the JDK 1.7 technical specification as its starting point, systematically explains basic Java programming techniques and common development methods. The first parts start from zero: first the principles of Java execution, the Java virtual machine, JDK installation and environment variable configuration; then the fundamentals of the Java language (data types, operators and expressions, flow control statements); then object-oriented programming in depth, including classes and objects, member variables and methods, constructors and static methods, inheritance and polymorphism, interfaces, abstract classes and inner classes; the data processing section covers arrays and strings, exception handling, input/output and file access, and serialization. The advanced technology section is devoted to multithreading, runtime type identification (RTTI) and reflection, generics, the collections framework, and type wrappers and autoboxing. With the language foundation established, the book moves to practical programming: GUI programming, Java multimedia programming, database fundamentals and Java database programming (JDBC), Java network programming and JSP programming, all taught through example programs. It closes with three chapters presenting a complete design and implementation of an instant messaging application; owing to length constraints, this part is included as a PDF on the accompanying disc. The book provides 450 examples, 6 small case studies, 1 project development case and 346 exercises, plus a DVD containing the example source code, roughly 18 hours of accompanying instructional video and a large quantity of bonus resources. It suits readers who want to teach themselves Java systematically while learning by doing.