The Definitive Java Programming Guide
Fully updated for Java SE 17, Javaโข: The Complete Reference, Twelfth Edition explains how to develop, compile, debug, and run Java programs. Best-selling programming author Herb Schildt covers the entire Java language, including its syntax, keywords, and fundamental programming principles. Youโll also find information on key portions of the Java API library, such as I/O, the Collections Framework, the stream library, and the concurrency utilities. Swing, JavaBeans, and servlets are examined, and numerous examples demonstrate Java in action. Of course, recent additions to the Java language, such as records, sealed classes, and switch expressions are discussed in detail. Best of all, the book is written in the clear, crisp, uncompromising style that has made Schildt the choice of millions worldwide.
Coverage includes:
- Data types, variables, arrays, and operators
- Control statements
- Classes, objects, and methods
- Method overloading and overriding
- Inheritance
- Interfaces and packages
- Exception handling
- Multithreaded programming
- Enumerations, autoboxing, and annotations
- The I/O classes
- Generics
- Lambda expressions
- Modules
- Records
- Sealed classes
- Text blocks
- switch expressions
- Pattern matching with instanceof
- String handling
- The Collections Framework
- Networking
- Event handling
- AWT
- Swing
- The Concurrent API
- The Stream API
- Regular expressions
- JavaBeans
- Servlets
- Much, much more