Completely revised and up-to-date coverage of

• XML–parsing XML files, generating XML, using XSL transformations, specifying Swing form layouts, and using the new XPath API

• Code processing–Java SE 6 scripting and compiler APIs (JSR 223), annotations, and annotation processors

• Advanced Swing and AWT–trees, tables, editor panes, MDI, progress indicators, and improved desktop integration

• Internationalization–including new Java SE 6 enhancements, and writing applets that change language based on browser locale

• JavaBeans™–including writing beans that can be manipulated in integrated builder environments, and using persistence for long-term data storage

• Java Security–message signing, code signing, authorization, authentication, encryption, and how (and when) to write your own security managers

The eighth edition of Core Java™, Volume II–Advanced Features, covers advanced user-interface programming and the enterprise features of the Java SE 6 platform. Like Volume I (which covers the most important language and library features), this book has been thoroughly revised for Java SE 6; new coverage is highlighted throughout. All sample programs have been carefully crafted and updated to illustrate today’s best-practices solutions to the types of real-world problems professional developers encounter.

Volume II includes new sections on the XPath API, compiler API, scripting framework and APIs, and many other Java SE 6 enhancements, along with complete coverage of

• I/O

• Multithreading

• Networking

• Database programming

• XML

• JNDI and LDAP

• Internationalization

• Advanced GUI components

• Java 2D and advanced AWT

• JavaBeans

• Security

• RMI

• Web services

• Collections

• Annotations

• Native methods

Gary Cornell has been writing and teaching programming professionals for more than twenty years and is the cofounder of Apress. He has written numerous best-selling books for programming professionals, was a cofinalist for a Jolt Award, and won the Readers Choice award from Visual Basic Magazine.