Java Programming 10-Minute Solutions

332 Pages·2003·3.87 MB·English

by  Mark Watson

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Java Programming
10-Minute Solutions
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Java Programming
™
10-Minute Solutions
Mark Watson
San Francisco • London
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Associate Publisher: Joel Fugazzotto
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— Mark Watson
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank my acquisitions and developmental editor Tom Cirtin, my technical
editor Chris N. Crane, my production editor Liz Burke, and my copy editor Sally Engelfried
for all their help in producing this book. I wish to express my appreciation to my wife Carol for
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Contents
Introduction xiii
File I/O 1
Solution 1 Copying and Deleting Directories and Files 2
Solution 2 Reading and Writing JAR/ZIP Files 4
Solution 3 Java Object Persistence with Serialization 8
Solution 4 Using Random Access File I/O 12
Solution 5 Writing Text Filters 14
String Handling 17
Solution 6 Efficiently Performing Multiple Replacements 18
Solution 7 Using Regular Expressions for Information Extraction 22
Solution 8 Using Java Properties to Configure Applications 25
XML Processing 29
Solution 9 Using DOM to Manipulate XML Documents in Memory 30
Solution 10 Using SAX to Efficiently Parse XML 35
Solution 11 Transforming XML with XSLT 42
Solution 12 Using Java XML Binding 46
Distributed Programming Using XML 51
Solution 13 Using XML-RPC for Client/Server Programming 52
Solution 14 Using XML over HTTP for Web Services 55
Solution 15 Using GLUE for SOAP-Based Web Services 59
Solution 16 Using Apache Axis for SOAP-Based Web Services 64
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Arrays, Vectors, and Hash Tables 71
Solution 17 Efficient Conversion Between Arrays and Vectors 72
Solution 18 Save Memory in Java Applications 73
Solution 19 Implementing Sorted Key Hash Tables 80
Searching and Sorting 83
Solution 20 Using Depth First Search 84
Solution 21 Making Searches More Space Efficient:
Iterative Deepening Search 88
Solution 22 Making Searches More CPU Efficient: A* Search 89
Solution 23 Using Merge Sort in Applications 93
Solution 24 Using Quicksort in Applications 97
Threads 101
Solution 25 Using Work Threads for Background Processing 102
Solution 26 Efficient Thread Synchronization 107
Solution 27 Controlling Your Applications Using Thread Groups
and Custom Security Managers 111
Network Programming 117
Solution 28 Programming with Server Sockets 118
Solution 29 Writing Client Socket Applications 126
Solution 30 Using Server-Side RMI 128
Solution 31 Writing RMI Clients 131
Solution 32 Using Server-Side CORBA 133
Solution 33 Writing CORBA Clients 138
JDBC Database Access 141
Solution 34 Configuring JDBC 142
Solution 35 Performing Database Updates 146
Solution 36 Performing Database Queries 153
Solution 37 Performing Batch Updates 156
Solution 38 Using Transactions to Insure Data Integrity 158
Solution 39 Dynamic Database Exploration Using the
Metadata API 160