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Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next Now let’s consider creating an application to run on the Web, which will show Java in all its glory. Part of this application will be a Java program running on the Web server, and the other part will be an applet that’s downloaded to the […]

Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next The examples you’ve seen so far use the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP, also known as stream-based sockets ), which is designed for ultimate reliability and guarantees that the data will get there. It allows retransmission of lost data, it provides multiple paths through different routers […]

Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next The JabberServer works, but it can handle only one client at a time. In a typical server, you’ll want to be able to deal with many clients at once. The answer is multithreading, and in languages that don’t directly support multithreading this means all sorts […]

Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next All programming languages provide abstractions. It can be argued that the complexity of the problems you can solve is directly related to the kind and quality of abstraction. By “kind” I mean: what is it that you are abstracting? Assembly language is a small abstraction […]

Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next to objects Why has object-oriented programming had such a sweeping impact on the software development community? Object-oriented programming appeals at multiple levels. For managers, it promises faster and cheaper development and maintenance. For analysts and designers, the modeling process becomes simpler and produces a clear, […]

Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next First of all, thanks to the Doyle Street Cohousing Community for putting up with me for the two years that it took me to write this book (and for putting up with me at all). Thanks very much to Kevin and Sonda Donovan for subletting […]

Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next The cover of Thinking in Java is inspired by the American Arts & Crafts Movement, which began near the turn of the century and reached its zenith between 1900 and 1920. It began in England as a reaction to both the machine production of the […]

Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next To accompany this book a Multimedia CD ROM is available separately, but this is not like the CDs that you’ll usually find packaged with books. Those often only contain the source code for the book. (The code for this book is freely downloadable from the […]

Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next This book was designed with one thing in mind: the way people learn the Java language. Seminar audience feedback helped me understand which parts were difficult and needed illumination. In the areas where I got ambitious and included too many features all at once, I […]

Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next The Java language and libraries from Sun Microsystems (a free download) come with documentation in electronic form, readable using a Web browser, and virtually every third party implementation of Java has this or an equivalent documentation system. Almost all the books published on Java have […]

Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next Like my previous book Thinking in C++ , this book has come to be structured around the process of teaching the language. In particular, my motivation is to create something that provides me with a way to teach the language in my own seminars. When […]

Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next At about the same time that my first book Using C++ (Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1989) came out, I began teaching that language. Teaching programming languages has become my profession; I’ve seen nodding heads, blank faces, and puzzled expressions in audiences all over the world since 1989. As […]