THE Java™ Programming Language, Fourth Edition

A URL object stores a URL, providing methods to examine and set its various parts (protocol, host, port number, and file). A URL ...

To use RMI you must first design one or more remote interfacesinterfaces whose methods can be invoked remotely. A remote interfa ...

throws java.io.IOException { // use the default, restrictive security manager System.setSecurityManager(new RMISecurityManager() ...

be run securely. Many environments can use the basic infrastructure just described. A compute farm that uses a large number of c ...

Server objects are governed by a "best effort" distributed garbage collector. When no outstanding references to a remote object ...

Much more information on these packages, and on security in general in the virtual machine, is in Inside Java™ 2 Platform Securi ...

A thread that calls the await method will block until the latch has counted down to zero. CyclicBarrier A utility that forces al ...

25.9.2. Archive Files java.util.jar The java.util.jar package provides classes for reading and writing the JAR (Java ARchive) fi ...

CRC32 computes a checksum using the CRC-32 algorithm. Adler32 computes a checksum using the Adler-32 algorithm. 25.10. javax.* ...

The overloads that accept Name arguments are useful for applications that need to manipulate names: composing them, comparing co ...

addition of sound services. 25.14. javax.swing Swing GUI Components The Swing components are a rich set of graphical user-interf ...

forward to take full advantage of the new features of the 5.0 release. The technical issues involved in application evolution an ...

requires a target of 1.5 as well. Naturally, source and target versions that came into existence after a given compiler was rele ...

A.3. Generics: Reification, Erasure, and Raw Types The generic type system was added to the Java programming language for the 5. ...

} and the following incorrect use: public static void main(String[] args) { PassThrough s = new PassThroughString(); s.passThrou ...

A.3.2. API Issues A second compatibility issue concerns the changes to the APIs themselves, within the class libraries. Many, if ...

Tom Duff, Bell Labs Table 1. Keywords abstract continuefor new switch assert default goto package synchronized boolean do if pri ...

AND & Exclusive OR ^ Inclusive OR | Conditional AND && Conditional OR || Conditional ?: Assignment = += -= *= /= %= ...

Form feed (\u000C) \ Backslash itself (\u005C) \' Single quote (\u0027) \" Double quote (\u0022) \ddd An octal char, with each d ...

character with hexadecimal 0xhh \uhhhh character with hexadecimal value 0xhhhh \t tab character ('\u0009') \n newline character ...