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JavaWorld
August 2001
Jeff Friesen
Object-oriented language basics, Part 5 Every Java class has a superclass. In the absence of an extends keyword, Object is that superclass. Object takes center stage as this article presents its 11 methods... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
November 2001
Jeff Friesen
Class and object initialization An exploration of class and object initialization, which introduces the strange concepts of the <clinit> and <init> methods... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
May 2001
Jeff Friesen
Object-oriented language basics, Part 2 In this article, you'll gain an understanding about fields, parameters, and local variables and learn to declare and access fields and methods... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
September 2001
Jeff Friesen
Object-oriented language basics, Part 6 Learn why Java's standard class library contains empty interfaces (such as Cloneable and Serializable). Also, examine the power of interfaces and learn why they provide more than a workaround for Java's lack of multiple implementation inheritance support... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
October 2002
Jeff Friesen
Java's character and assorted string classes support text-processing Text-processing is one of the more frequent activities in which computer programs engage. Java supports that activity via the Character, String, StringBuffer, and StringTokenizer classes. This article explores each class and introduces you to an assortment of those classes' methods. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
October 2001
Jeff Friesen
Object-oriented language basics, Part 7 This final installment of Java 101's object-oriented programming series explores Java's support for polymorphism and investigates how abstract classes accommodate generalities in class hierarchies. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
June 2001
Jeff Friesen
Object-oriented language basics, Part 3 The author explores composition and demonstrates its value in object-oriented programming. Composition and inheritance are design consepts related in a manner similar to both sides of the same coin... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
April 2001
Geoff Friesen
Object-oriented language basics, Part 1 An introduction to object-oriented programming and how to declare classes and create objects from those classes... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
November 2000
Geoff Friesen
Applications, applets, and hybrids This article establishes our bearings and sets sail to the land of applications, applets, and hybrids (an unusual category of Java programs)... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
December 2001
Jeff Friesen
Trash talk, Part 1 One feature that distinguishes Java from other computer languages is its garbage collection abilities. In this article, This article introduces garbage collection and shows how Java's optional support for it affects your programs... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
October 2001
Java 101 study hall Brush up on Java terms, learn tips and cautions, and enter the first Java 101 reader challenge mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
November 2001
Michael C. Daconta
Practice makes perfect One pitfall stumbled on while porting an Extensible User Interface Language (XUL) game to Java and two pitfalls sent in by readers... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
June 13, 2003
Jeff Friesen
Datastructures and algorithms, Part 2 This article concludes a two-part series that explores two important computer science topics: datastructures and algorithms. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
April 2002
Jeff Friesen
Exceptions to the programming rules, Part 2 Learn about Java's exceptions class hierarchy, how to extend those classes, how to throw objects created from exception classes, how to catch thrown objects and handle the exceptions they represent, and how to clean your code... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
September 2002
Jeff Friesen
Packages organize classes and interfaces Professional Java developers organize frequently used classes and interfaces in class libraries for later reuse. Learn what constitutes a package, how to create a package of classes and interfaces, how to import packaged classes and interfaces into a program, and more. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
January 2002
Jeff Friesen
Trash talk, Part 2 This article explores the Reference Objects API, an API that allows your programs to interact with the garbage collector in limited ways... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
May 2, 2003
Jeff Friesen
Datastructures and algorithms, Part 1 After presenting basic datastructure and algorithm concepts, this article focuses on the array datastructure and associated algorithms. The article concludes with the assertion that Java's arrays are objects. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
February 2003
Jeff Friesen
Regular expressions simplify pattern-matching code To help you write simpler pattern-matching code, Java provides regular expressions. After introducing you to terminology and the java.util.regex package, the author explores many regular expression constructs supported by that package's Pattern class. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
July 2000
Jacob Weintraub
Learn how to store data in objects In this second installment of Java 101, Jacob Weintraub delves into storing data in Java and the various ways you can use that data. Specifically, he examines how objects store data and how you can pass data to objects in method calls... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
February 2001
Robert Nielsen
Learn Java from Ben Franklin While Benjamin Franklin never wrote a line of Java code, his techniques for better writing can be applied to writing Java. Anyone with at least a basic grasp of Java can use Franklin's learning methods... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
March 2002
Jeff Friesen
Exceptions to the programming rules, Part 1 Learn about exceptions and how to handle them in C, C++, and Java. Learning how to handle exceptions in various languages gives you an appreciation for why exception handling works the way it does in Java... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
September 2000
Bruce Eckel
Everything is an object, Part 1 This two-part article, excerpted from Chapter 2 in Thinking in Java 2nd. ed., moves you to the point where you can write your first Java program. Bruce Eckel gives an overview of the essentials... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
November 2000
Abhilash Koneri
Eliminate tedious programming: Recover data with XML and Reflection The parsing of ResultSets forms one of the most significant tasks involved in retrieving data from a database. But, as a repetitious and uninteresting assignment, it is not a favorite among developers. How to supplant ResultSet parsing in the data access objects... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
October 2000
Bruce Eckel
Everything is an object, Part 2 Eckel takes you through name visibility and using components from other libraries; the static keyword; and comments and embedded documentation. By the end, you should be able to build your first Java program... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
December 2000
Michael C. Daconta
When Runtime.exec() won't This installment of Java Traps discusses one new pitfall and revisits another from the previous column. Originating in the java.lang package, the pitfall specifically involves problems with the Runtime.exec() method. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
September 2001
Wally Flint
Access control for partial exposure With Java's built-in access control, you can't expose fields and methods to some classes in a package, while hiding them from others in the same package... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
April 2001
Piet Jonas
Secure type-safe collections A framework that overcomes the standard Java Collections Framework's main problem: its containers lack the ability to restrict themselves to storing objects of a specific type. The solution uses reflection, wrapper classes, and a collection of static factory methods... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
February 2002
David Geary
Take control with the Proxy design pattern The Proxy design pattern in Java lets you substitute a proxy for an object. In that capacity, proxies prove useful in many situations, ranging from Web services to Swing icons... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
July 2001
Tarak Modi
Clean up your wire protocol with SOAP, Part 4 Here's a framework based on the dynamic proxy classes in the Java 2 Platform, Version 1.3. This framework will make creating SOAP clients just as easy and intuitive as creating SOAP services... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
October 3, 2003
Dawid Weiss
Discover new dimensions of scripted Java This article presents an extension to BeanShell that turns scripts into real Java classes that support inheritance, Java reflection, method overriding, and so on. The extension is designed to be fully transparent to the Java application using it. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
October 2000
Robert Nielsen
Understanding constructors To learn Java, you must understand constructors. Because constructors share some characteristics with methods, it is easy for the Java beginner to confuse them. However, constructors and methods have important differences... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
August 2002
Guy Gur-Ari
Empower RMI with TRMI Transparent Remote Method Invocation (TRMI) extends RMI to simplify the creation of distributed applications by allowing centralized RemoteException handling and by allowing any interface to be used remotely. This article tours TRMI's inner workings. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
January 2001
Gregg Sporar
Retrofit existing applications with RMI Partitioning an existing application so it is distributed across multiple CPUs is easy using Java's Remote Method Invocation (RMI). However, RMI must be carefully introduced into existing source code... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
November 2001
John Chamberlain
Implement a J2EE-aware application console in Swing Learn the fundamentals of Swing while creating a command console to control complex enterprise applications. A console provides a window into a system's operation and allows operators to configure, monitor, and control the system in real time... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
November 2001
Letters to the Editor Should you enable assertions in a production system? What's the difference between Jxta and Jini? Do access modifiers prevent inheritance? Is MVC a design pattern? mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
December 2000
Robert Nielsen
Calculating Java dates Whether you are dealing with financial transactions or planning future activities, you need to know how to create, use, and display dates in a Java program. That requires more than simply looking up the appropriate class in the API reference: just one date can easily involve creating objects in three date-related classes. This tutorial shows what you need to know. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
January 2, 2004
Allen Holub
More on getters and setters This article provides one of several possible programmatic solutions to the get/set-elimination problem. In particular, it demonstrates how to construct both Web-based and client-side user interfaces without exposing your object's implementation to the entire program. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
February 2003
Laurence Vanhelsuwe
Unwrap the package statement's potential The package statement is a very powerful Java language feature. Yet most Java programmers, even experienced ones, fail to correctly exploit this power. Intrigued? Read on and see how a simple language feature can have massive repercussions downstream. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
June 2001
Michael Daconta
An API's looks can be deceiving When you examine an API, your first impressions are often wrong. The author examines two cases where an intuitive model of how an API should work trips over the complexity of implementation details... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
August 1, 2003
Allen Holub
Why extends is evil Improve your code by replacing concrete base classes with interfaces mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
April 25, 2003
Letters to the Editor JavaWorld authors discuss the advantages of a JavaServer Pages-based communication layer, the Subscriber Identity Module, the Cascading Menu pattern, and more. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
March 2003
David Geary
An inside view of Observer The Observer pattern lets you build extensible software with pluggable objects by allowing communication between loosely coupled objects. The author explores the Observer pattern, how it's used throughout the Java 2 SDK, and how you can implement the pattern in your own code. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
October 3, 2003
Allen Holub
Create client-side user interfaces in HTML This article presents a variant on Swing's JEditorPane that makes it possible to specify an entire screen of your client-side user interface (UI) in HTML. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
July 2001
Jeff Friesen
Object-oriented language basics, Part 4 The author shows how to use inheritance to create layered objects, and compares and contrasts inheritance with composition... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
December 2001
Bill Pierce
Diagnose common runtime problems with hprof Ever been a few days from releasing an application when testing reveals a memory leak or something causing the CPU to spin out of control? Few people realize that the Java 2 JDK provides a useful profiling tool called hprof, which you can use to diagnose these behaviors with minimal fuss... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
October 2001
David Geary
Amaze your developer friends with design patterns Design patterns are proven techniques for implementing robust, malleable, reusable, and extensible object-oriented software. This article introduces design patterns to Java developers and explores Strategy, Composite, and Decorator -- three common, yet powerful, design patterns in the JDK... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
July 18, 2003
James Carman
Get down to business In this article, you will learn how to structure your applications such that modifications to the business object implementation do not require changes to the user interface using a simple framework for accessing your business objects. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
January 2001
Wm. Paul Rogers
Thanks type and gentle class Confusing the concepts of object and class deserves an askance look. Failing to distinguish between type and class, however, typically goes unnoticed. Yet the battle to separate implementation and interface concerns requires type-oriented thinking... mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
July 2000
Todd M. Greanier
Flatten your objects The Java Serialization API is used by many other Java APIs (like RMI and JavaBeans) to persist objects beyond the duration of a running virtual machine. This article tries to demystify the secrets of the Java Serialization API. mark for My Articles similar articles
JavaWorld
December 2000
Mark Johnson
C#: A language alternative or just J--?, Part 2 Despite their enormous similarities, Java and C# differ greatly in many language details and also in their basic technical intent. This second article of a two-part series covers C# language constructs and concludes with some speculation on the idea of standardizing C#... mark for My Articles similar articles