This is a good high level look at the new features in Java 6. The page count is low enough at 220 to read through from beginning to end and get a good feel for what is new. This is not a deep bible type book though. You will need other references or dig in code experiments yourself. The JDBC 4.0 material for example is only 11 pages. The low page count is made that much the odder by the inclusion of some truly useless material: each chapter starts with two tables detailing the differences in number of classes, interfaces, enums, etc between Java 5 and 6. Really? Who cares that there was 8 interfaces in lang 5.0 and... 8 interfaces in lang 6.0? Still, this book should be read by developers wanting to take advantage of what Java 6 has to offer.
Author(s): John Zukowski
Edition: 1
Publisher: Apress
Year: 2006
Language: English
Commentary: +OCR
Pages: 239
Java 6 Platform Revealed......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 16
CHAPTER 1 Java SE 6 at a Glance......Page 20
CHAPTER 2 Language and Utility Updates......Page 32
CHAPTER 3 I/O, Networking, and Security Updates......Page 58
CHAPTER 4 AWT and Swing Updates......Page 76
CHAPTER 5 JDBC 4.0......Page 122
CHAPTER 6 Extensible Markup Language (XML)......Page 134
CHAPTER 7 Web Services......Page 166
CHAPTER 8 The Java Compiler API......Page 174
CHAPTER 9 Scripting and JSR 223......Page 190
CHAPTER 10 Pluggable Annotation Processing Updates......Page 202
APPENDIX Licensing, Installation, and Participation......Page 220
Index......Page 228
