Book Description
This text is an introduction to the complex world of the Java Technologies. This book encapsulates rich practical hands-on experience in developing web applications, combined with teaching the subject for graduate/post-graduate students. The book is therefore a culmination of putting together what has been both practiced as well as preached, which is the one of the most compelling differentiators for this book. But what is more fascinating is the nature of the web itself. It can also be used for independent study by anyone interested in getting a broad introduction to a core useful subset of the many technologies of Java. Our approach in this book is to regard Java as a language that readers will want to use as a primary tool in many different areas of their programming work - not just for creating programs with graphical content within Web pages. For this reason, in the early chapters we have avoided an emphasis on creating applets and GUI-based programs. While being able to create GUI-based programs is superficially attractive, the language concepts required to create them properly are, in fact, quite advanced. Nevertheless, we recognize that visual examples are much more fun to create and work with.
