Java The Complete Reference, Seventh Edition

OR operator, short-circuit (||), 71, 72–73

Ordinal value, 261

ordinal( ), 261, 262, 433

out output stream, 24, 288, 407, 409

out( ), 527, 529

OutputStream class, 286, 287, 292, 562, 565,

571, 574, 576, 586, 593

methods, table of, 563

OutputStreamWriter class, 288

Overloading methods, 125–130, 154–156, 173

@Override, built-in annotation, 282, 283

Overriding, method, 171–177

and dynamic method dispatch, 174–177

using final to prevent, 180

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Package(s), 138, 183–192, 202

access to classes contained in, 186–190

core Java API, table of, 813–815

defining, 184

finding, 184–185

importing, 190–192

Swing, 863–864

Package class, 278, 429–430

methods, table of, 430

package statement, 184, 190

Paint mode, setting, 685–686

paint( ), 297, 621, 622, 623, 624, 625, 626, 670,

676, 758, 871, 874

Paintable area, computing, 875

paintBorder( ), 874

paintChildren( ), 874

paintComponent( ), 874, 878

Painting in Swing, 873–878

Panel class, 618, 665, 666, 667, 730

Panes, top-level Swing container, 863

PARAM NAME, 630

Parameter(s), 24, 43, 112, 115–117

applets and, 630–633

and constructors, 119–120

objects as, 130–132

and overloaded constructors, 130

and overloaded methods, 125

type.SeeType parameter(s)

Parameterized types, 316, 317

parseByte( ), 391, 396–397

parseInt( ), 394, 396–397

parseLong( ), 396–397

parseShort( ), 392, 396–397

Parsing, 503

Pascal, 4

Passwords, reading, 587

Pattern class, 825–826

Pattern matching.SeeRegular expressions

PatternSyntaxException, 827

Payne, Jonathan, 6

peek( ), 446, 491, 492

peekFirst( ), 447, 452

peekLast( ), 447, 452

Peers, native, 859, 860

Persistence (Java Beans), 851

PI (double constant), 418

PipedInputStream class, 287

PipedOutputStream class, 287

PipedReader class, 288

PipedWriter class, 288

PixelGrabber class, 767–769, 770

play( ), 619, 635

Pluggable look and feel (PLAF), 860–861, 862

PNG file format, 756, 757

Point class, 646, 647

Pointers, 56, 109

poll( ), 446, 456

pollFirst( ), 447, 452

Polling, 224, 242–243

pollLast( ), 447, 452

Polygon class, 665, 681

Polymorphism, 19–21

and dynamic method dispatch, 174–177

and interfaces, 192, 195–196, 200

and overloaded methods, 125, 127, 128

pop( ), 446, 447, 491, 492

PopupMenu class, 742

Port, 599

Portability problem, 6–7, 8, 9, 12, 14

and data types, 34

and native methods, 306

and thread context switching, 225

POSITIVE_INFINITY, 387

pow( ), 309–311, 419

preferredLayoutSize( ), 723

previous( ), 459, 730

print( ), 26, 292, 364, 574, 587, 915

printf( )

function, C/C++, 525

method, Java, 151, 539, 575–576, 586, 587

println( ), 24, 26, 292, 364, 574, 575, 586, 587,

588, 915

printStackTrace( ), 219

PrintStream class, 287, 288, 292, 574–576

PrintWriter class, 288, 292–293, 586–587

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