This book completes the Apress Java learning journey and is a comprehensive approach to learning Java APIs, extensions, and modules such as Java EE integration, mobile Java modules, JavaFX, and JDBC. In this book, you'll learn how to build user interfaces with Swing and JavaFX as well as how to write network programs with the new Java 9 and much more. Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries is for Java programmers who are familiar with the fundamentals of the Java language and Java programming, who are now ready to call upon the power of extended Java functionality available from the huge array of Java APIs, extensions, and libraries. After reading and learning from this book you'll be ready to become a professional Java programmer. What You'll Learn Extend your Java skills beyond the fundamental object-oriented concepts and core language features Apply Java Swing for building Java front ends Get started with Java network programming Connect to databases and access data from Java programs using the JDBC API Work with JavaFX, RMI (Remote Method Invocation), and JNI (Java Native Interface) Use the new scripting features of Java Who This Book Is For Java programmers who are familiar with the fundamentals of the Java language and Java programming.

Learn the fundamentals of the Java 17 LTS or Java Standard Edition version 17 Long Term Support release, including basic programming concepts and the object-oriented fundamentals necessary at all levels of Java development. Authors Kishori Sharan and Adam L. Davis walk you through writing your first Java program step-by-step. Armed with that practical experience, you'll be ready to learn the core of the Java language. Beginning Java 17 Fundamentals provides over 90 diagrams and 240 complete programs to help you learn the topics faster. While this book teaches you the basics, it also has been revised to include the latest from Java 17 including the following: value types (records), immutable objects with an efficient memory layout; local variable type inference (var); pattern matching, a mechanism for testing and deconstructing values; sealed types, a mechanism for declaring all possible subclasses of a class; multiline text values; and switch expressions. The book continues with a series of foundation topics, including using data types, working with operators, and writing statements in Java. These basics lead onto the heart of the Java language: object-oriented programming. By learning topics such as classes, objects, interfaces, and inheritance you'll have a good understanding of Java's object-oriented model. The final collection of topics takes what you've learned and turns you into a real Java programmer. You'll see how to take the power of object-oriented programming and write programs that can handle errors and exceptions, process strings and dates, format data, and work with arrays to manipulate data. What You Will Learn Write your first Java programs with emphasis on learning object-oriented programming How to work with switch expressions, value types (records), local variable type inference, pattern matching switch and more from Java 17 Handle exceptions, assertions, strings and dates, and object formatting Learn about how to define and use modules Dive in depth into classes, interfaces, and inheritance in Java Use regular expressions Take advantage of the JShell REPL tool Who This Book Is For Those who are new to Java programming, who may have some or even no prior programming experience.

Work with the essential and advanced features of the Java 17 release. This book covers features such as annotations, reflection, and generics. These topics are then complemented by details of how to use lambda expressions, allowing you to build powerful and efficient Java programs. Furthermore, added to this edition you'll find topics on network programming, Java RMI, the process API, and custom runtime images. The authors provide a multitude of diagrams and complete programs to help you visualize and better understand the topics covered in this book. More Java 17, Third Edition starts with a series of chapters on the essential language features provided by Java before moving on to Java module development and packaging, and improved interop with other languages. After reading this book, you'll have the know-how of a professional Java programmer and be able to tackle most projects with confidence. This book's source code can be accessed at github.com/Apress/more-java-17. What You Will Learn Use essential and advanced features of the Java language Code Java annotations Work with reflection and generics Manage streams with the Stream API Who This Book Is For Those new to Java programming who are continuing the Java learning journey; it is recommended that you read an introductory Java programming book first, such as Java 17 for Absolute Beginners, from Apress.

This unique in-depth tutorial shows you how to start developing rich-client desktop applications using your Java skills and provides comprehensive coverage of JavaFX 17's features. Each chapter starts with an introduction to the topic at hand, followed by a step-by-step discussion of the topic with small snippets of code. The book contains numerous figures aiding readers in visualizing the GUI that is built at every step in the discussion. This book has been revised to include JavaFX 17 and earlier releases since previous edition. It starts with an introduction to JavaFX and its history. It lists the system requirements and the steps to start developing JavaFX applications. It shows you how to create a Hello World application in JavaFX, explaining every line of code in the process. Later in the book, authors Kishori Sharan and Peter Spath discuss advanced topics such as 2D and 3D graphics, charts, FXML, advanced controls, and printing. Some of the advanced controls such as TableView, and WebView are covered at length in separate chapters. This book provides complete and comprehensive coverage of JavaFX 17 features; uses an incremental approach to teach JavaFX, assuming no prior GUI knowledge; includes code snippets, complete programs, and pictures; covers MVC patterns using JavaFX; and covers advanced topics such as FXML, effects, transformations, charts, images, canvas, audio and video, DnD, and more. So, after reading and using this book, you'll come away with a comprehensive introduction to the JavaFX APIs. What You Will Learn How to build JavaFX User Interfaces and Java clients What are properties, bindings, observable collections, stages, scenes; how to use these How to play with colors, styling nodes and event handling How to add user interactivity (mouse, keyboard, DnD) How to do tables, trees and tree tables How to do 2D shapes, text nodes, 3D shapes How to apply effects, transformations, animations, images How to draw; play audio and video Who is this book for: Developers new to the JavaFX platform. Some prior Java experience is recommended.

Scripting in Java teaches you how to use the Java Scripting API and JavaScript to execute scripts and take advantage of the features of a scripting language while developing Java applications. The book also covers topics that enable scripting languages to take advantage of Java features and the Java class library, including the new Java Collections and JavaFX 8 APIs. Most of the examples in this book use JavaScript on the Nashorn engine. Author Kishori Sharan will show you scripts in JavaScript to demonstrate its power and use in your Java applications. Some of the examples use the jrunscript and jjs command-line tools. Furthermore, debugging is discussed to equip you for situations when or if you encounter any issues with this kind of Java scripting. After reading and using this book, you will have most of what you need to do scripting in Java.

Explore the new Java programming language features and APIs introduced in Java 10 through Java 13. Java 13 Revealed is for experienced Java programmers looking to migrate to Java 13. Author Kishori Sharan begins by covering how to use local variable type inference to improve readability of your code and time-based release versioning of the Java platform to understand the Java release strategy. This book provides extensive coverage of the new HTTP Client APIs, which were introduced in Java 9 as a preview and was made a standard feature in Java 11. New Java features such as launching a single-file source code program and new switch syntax are discussed in detail. What You Will Learn Use local variable type inference to declare local variables using the var restricted type name introduced in Java 10 Take advantage of application class data sharing among JVMs for faster application startup Create HTTP requests, responses, and web sockets with the new HTTP Client APIs Run a single-file Java source code program using the java command without compiling it Apply the new switch statement and expressions to write compact and less error-prone code Work with text blocks in Java code About new APIs, deprecated APIs, and deprecated tools Who This Book Is For Java developers who want to update their Java skills from Java 9 to Java 13.

This is the second of three volumes of the Harnessing JavaTM 7 book. It provides a comprehensive approach to learning the Java programming language to all levels of Java developers. It covers the essential topics of the Java programming language such as Inner Classes, Threads, I/O, Collections, etc. Each topic in the book starts with the topic's background discussion. A step-by-step process with small snippets of Java code provides easy to follow instructions. At the end of a topic, a complete and ready-to-run Java program is provided.

This volume contains 50 diagrams to help programmers visualize and better understand the topics. More than 290 complete programs included in this volume help the readers practice and learn the topics faster.

The chapter on Threads discusses everything from the very basic concepts of a thread to the most advanced topics such as synchronizers, executor framework, fork/join framework, atomic variables, etc.

This volume contains an unmatched coverage of Java I/O. It devotes four chapters on the topic of Java I/O. NIO 2.0, which is a Java 7 feature, has been covered in detail in a separate chapter. Besides other topics of NIO 2.0, the Path API, the FileVisitor API, the watch service and asynchronous file I/O of NIO 2.0 have in-depth coverage. It contains at least one complete Java program on every NIO 2.0 topic discussed in this volume. The following topics are covered in this volume. Interfaces Annotations Inner Classes Enum Reflection Generics Threads Input/Output Archive Files NIO NIO 2.0 Collections It covers the following new features of JavaTM 7 in detail. Generic Type Inference Heap Pollution Improved Compiler Warnings & Errors for Non-Reifiable Varargs Parameters Improved File and Channel Closing Mechanism Using a try-with-resources Statement New Input/Output 2.0 (NIO 2.0) Fork/Join Framework Phaser Synchronizer TransferQueue Collection

This is the first of three volumes of the Harnessing JavaTM 7 book. It provides a comprehensive approach to learning the Java programming language to all levels of Java developers.

It covers the fundamental topics of Java in detail such as Object-Oriented concepts, data types, operators, etc. It contains more than 70 diagrams to help programmers visualize and understand the topics better. More than 170 complete programs included in this volume help beginners and intermediate level programmers learn the topics faster. The second chapter, ""Writing Java Programs"," has been especially designed for beginners, which walks you through writing your first Java program step-by-step. The following topics are covered in this volume. Programming Concepts Data Types Operators Statements Classes and Objects Object and Objects Classes AutoBoxing Exception Handling Assertions Strings & Dates Formatting Objects Regular Expressions Arrays Garbage Collection Inheritance It covers the following new features of JavaTM 7 in detail. Binary Numeric Literals Underscores in Numeric Literals Strings in a switch Statement try-with-resources Statement Catching Multiple Exception Types Re-throwing Exceptions with Improved Type Checking The java.util.Objects class

This is the third of three volumes of the Harnessing JavaTM 7 book. It provides a comprehensive approach to learning the Java programming language for intermediate and advanced level Java programmers. If you are new to the Java programming language, you are suggested to read the first and second volumes of this title before this volume.

This volume covers the advanced topics of Java programming language such as Swing, Network Programming, and JDBC. Each topic in the book starts with a discussion of the topic's background. A step-by-step process, with small snippets of Java code, provides easy to follow instructions. At the end of a topic, a complete and ready-to-run Java program is provided.

This volume contains over 130 images and diagrams to help programmers visualize and better understand the topics. More than 130 complete programs, included in this volume, allow the readers to practice and quickly learn the topics.

The chapter on Swing uses a unique approach to building an application with a graphical user interface (GUI). It discusses various aspects, from the very basic concepts of developing a Swing application, to the most advanced topics, such as decorating a Swing component with a JLayer, Drag-and-Drop features, Synth Skinnable L&F, etc. The chapter starts with an introduction to the GUI, using only one line of Java code, and builds to the most advanced concepts of GUI, one-step at a time. The chapter devotes over 55 pages to describe, at length, the different kinds of layout managers. At each step, it includes images to help the reader visualize how the application will look at runtime. Images at every step of the GUI building help the readers finish the chapter more quickly, with a vivid, detailed understanding of each topic.

The chapter on network programming covers the basics of network technologies first, and then, the advanced topics of network programming, using Java class library. It covers IPv4 and IPv6, addressing schemes, subnetting, supernetting, multicasting, TCP/IP sockets, UPD sockets, asynchronous socket I/O, etc.

The chapter on JDBC provides one of a kind coverage of database programming using the JDBC API. It provides the details of connecting and working with databases from all major database vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Sybase, etc. Wherever applicable, the chapter provides the database scripts to work with examples in the following databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Java DB (Apache Derby), Sybase, Adaptive Server Anywhere, etc. It contains a complete discussion on processing a ResultSet and a RowSet. It discusses how to use the RowSetFactory, which is a new feature of JavaTM 7, to obtain a RowSet object of a specific type. Working with Large Objects (LOBs), such as Blob, Clob, and NClob, is covered in detail with Java code examples and database scripts. The following topics are covered in this volume. Swing Applets Network Programming JDBC API Remote Method Invocation Java Native Interface It covers the following new features of JavaTM 7 in detail. JLayer Swing Component Translucent Window Shaped Window Asynchronous Socket IO Multicast DatagramChannel RowSetFactory