Java Garage (The Garage Series)

Enter your Java Garage... where you do your work, not somebody else's... where you experiment and tinker... where work is about passion, serendipity, inspiration... where you achieve greatness with Java, not just competence. Your mentor, teacher, sherpa: Eben Hewitt, Java architect, able to leap tall object models in a single bound, and teach you how to do it, too. What you'll learn: only the best ways to get it done with J2SE 1.5 classes, inheritance, interfaces, type conversions, event handling, exceptions, file I/O, multithreading, inner classes, Swing, JARs, everything that matters. Think 'zine. Think blog. But, please, do not think of any other Java book you have ever seen. Adopting an unconventional style bordering on the sarcastic, Hewitt offers his personal take on operators, strings, arrays, inheritance, declaring and modifying classes, documenting code with Javadoc, handling exceptions, creating GUIs with Swing, and using the system and runtime classes. "Garage" in the title refers to the idea of the workshop--the place where you go to tinker around with stuff, to tear it apart and build it back together again, to repair something that's not working. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Takes a fresh look at Java. This work explains J2SE 5.0 classes, inheritance, interfaces, type conversions, event handling, exceptions, file I/O, multithreading, inner classes, Swing, and JARs. It provides real working code and instructions for making usable applications. It also includes FAQs for speedy reference and a glossary on steroids. [ Enter your Java Garage ]
Where you do your work, not somebody else's
Where you get away, experiment, tinker
Where work is about passion, not rules
Serendipity, not same-old, same-old
Where discoveries are made
Where what you learn matters
Where you achieve greatness, not just competence