Product Description
The Java Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Java. Developers will find hundreds of tried-and-true Java "recipes" covering all of the major APIs as well as some APIs that are not usually covered in other Java books. The Java Cookbook, like the bestselling Perl Cookbook, covers a lot of ground, and offers Java developers short, focused pieces of code that can be easily incorporated into other programs. The idea is to focus on things that are useful, tricky, or both, and the book should serve as a great "jumping-off place" for Java developers who want to get started in areas outside of their specialization.

	Preface
1	Getting Started: Compiling, Running, and Debugging	1
2	Interacting with the Environment	38
3	Strings and Things	53
4	Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions	87
5	Numbers	112
6	Dates and Times	149
7	Structuring Data with Java	171
8	Object-Oriented Techniques	205
9	Input and Output	230
10	Directory and Filesystem Operations	288
11	Programming Serial and Parallel Ports	306
12	Graphics and Sound	338
13	Graphical User Interfaces	370
14	Internationalization and Localization	415
15	Network Clients	436
16	Server-Side Java: Sockets	464
17	Network Clients II: Applets and Web Clients	488
18	Web Server Java: Servlets and JSP	517
19	Java and Electronic Mail	564
20	Database Access	608
21	XML	649
22	Distributed Java: RMI	665
23	Packages and Packaging	685
24	Threaded Java	712
25	Introspection, or "A Class Named Class"	748
26	Using Java with Other Languages	777
	Afterword	801
	Index	803