Intro
1 Breaking the Surface: a quick dip 1
2 A Trip to Objectville: yes, there will be objects 25
3 Know Your Variables: primitwes and references 47
4 How Objects Behave: object state affects method behavior 69
5 Extra-Strength Methods: flow control, operations, and more 93
6 Using the Java Library: so you don't have to write it all yourself 121
7 Better Living in Objectville: planning for the future 161
8 Serious Polymorphism: exploiting abstract classes and interfaces 193
9 Life and Death of an Object: constructors and memory management 231
10 Numbers Matter: math, formatting, wrappers, and statics 269
11 Risky Behavior: exception handling 297
12 A Very Graphic Story: intro to GUI, event handling and inner classes 335
13 Work on Your Swing: layout managers and components 381
14 Saving Objects: serialization and I/O 411
15 Make a Connection: networking sockets and multithreading 451
16 Release Your Code: packaging and deployment 509
17 Distributed Computing: RMI with a dash of servlets, EJB, and Fini 535
App. A Final code kitchen 557
App. B Top Ten Things that didn't make it into the rest of the book 587
Index 607