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Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook Chapter 3: Enumerated Types By David Flanagan, Brett McLaughlin

Better, Faster, Lighter Java Sample Excerpt: Preface Chapter 3: Do One Thing, and Do It Well Chapter 10: Extending jPetStore By Bruce A. Tate, Justin Gehtland

Building Java Enterprise Applications Volume I: Architecture Chapter 8: Business Logic By Brett McLaughlin

Database Programming with JDBC and Java, Second Edition Chapter 9: Persistence By George Reese

Developing Java Beans Chapter 1: Introduction By Robert Englander

Eclipse Chapter 9: Web Development By Robert Simmons, Jr.

Eclipse Cookbook Chapter 6: Using Eclipse in Teams By Steve Holzner

Enterprise JavaBeans, 4th Edition Chapter 11: Session Beans By Richard Monson-Haefel, Bill Burke, Sacha Labourey

Hardcore Java Chapter 2: The Final Story Chapter 6: Nested Classes By Robert Simmons, Jr.

Head First Java Sample Excerpt: A trip to Objectville Sample Excerpt: Serious Polymorphism By Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra

Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook Chapter 3: Harnessing Hibernate By James Elliott

J2EE Design Patterns Chapter 5: Presentation Tier Scalability By William Crawford, Jonathan Kaplan

Java & XML Data Binding Chapter 3: Generating Classes By Brett McLaughlin

Java & XML 2nd Edition Chapter 12: Java and XML: SOAP By Brett McLaughlin

Java 2D Graphics Chapter 4: Painting and Stroking By Brett McLaughlin

Java and SOAP Chapter 5: Working with Complex Data Types By Robert Englander

Java and XSLT Chapter 5: XSLT Processing with Java By Eric M. Burke

Java Cookbook, 2nd Edition Chapter 8: Data Structuring with Generics, foreach, and Enumerations (JDK 1.5) By Ian F. Darwin

Java Cryptography Chapter 6: Authentication By Jonathan Knudsen

Java Data Objects Chapter 1: An Initial Tour Chapter 3: JDO Architectures By David Jordan, Craig Russell

Java Database Best Practices Chapter 2: Relational Data Architecture By George Reese

Java Distributed Computing Chapter 3: Distributing Objects By George Reese

Java Enterprise Best Practices Chapter 3: Servlet Best Practices By George Reese

Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition Chapter 2: JDBC By William Crawford, Jim Farley, David Flanagan

Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition Chapter 13: Printing Chapter 17: Sound By David Flanagan

Java Extreme Programming Cookbook Chapter 4: JUnit By Eric M. Burke, Brian M. Coyner

Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell Chapter 3: Swing Programming Topics By David Flanagan

Java I/O Chapter 5: Network Streams By Elliotte Rusty Harold

Java in a Nutshell, 4th Edition Chapter 4: The Java Platform By Elliotte Rusty Harold

Java Internationalization Chapter 4: Isolating Locale-Specific Data with Resource Bundles By Andy Deitsch, David Czarnecki

Java Management Extensions Chapter 2: Standard MBeans By J. Steven Perry

Java Message Service Chapter 2: Developing a Simple JMS Example By Richard Monson-Haefel, Dave Chappell

Java Network Programming, 2nd Edition Chapter 11: Sockets for Servers By Elliotte Rusty Harold

Java NIO Chapter 4: Selectors By Ron Hitchens

Java Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition Chapter 12: Distributed Computing By Jack Shirazi

Java Programming with Oracle JDBC Chapter 19: Performance By Donald Bales

Java RMI Chapter 10: Serialization By William Grosso

Java Security, 2nd Edition Chapter 1: Java Application Security By Scott Oaks

Java Servlet & JSP Cookbook Chapter 17: Embedding Multimedia in JSPs By Bruce W. Perry

Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Edition Chapter 12: Enterprise Servlets and J2EE By Jason Hunter With William Crawford

Java Swing, 2nd Edition Chapter 14: Menus and Toolbars By Marc Loy, Robert Eckstein, Dave Wood, James Elliott, Brian Cole

Java Threads, 2nd Edition Chapter 1: Introduction to Threading By Scott Oaks, Henry Wong

Java Web Services Chapter 6: UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery By Dave Chappell, Tyler Jewell

Java Web Services in a Nutshell Chapter 3: SAAJ By Kim Topley

JavaServer Faces Chapter 1: Introducing JavaServer Faces Chapter 2: JSF Development Process Overview By Hans Bergsten

JavaServer Pages, 3rd Edition Chapter 11: Developing Custom Tag Libraries as Tag Files By Hans Bergsten

JXTA in a Nutshell Chapter 2: Getting Started with JXTA By Scott Oaks, Bernard Traversat, Li Gong

Jython Essentials Chapter 1: Introduction to Jython By Samuele Pedroni, Noel Rappin

Learning Java, 2nd Edition Chapter 23: XML By Patrick Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen

Learning UML Chapter 8: Activity Diagrams By Sinan Si Alhir

Mac OS X for Java Geeks Chapter 10: QuickTime for Java By Will Iverson

NetBeans: The Definitive Guide Chapter 11: Working with XML By Tim Boudreau, Jesse Glick, Simeon Greene, Vaughn Spurlin, Jack J. Woehr

Physics for Game Developers Chapter 6: Projectiles By David M. Bourg

Programming Jakarta Struts, 2nd Edition -- Chapter 11: The Validator Framework By Chuck Cavaness

SAX2 Chapter 3: Producing SAX2 Events By David Brownell

Tomcat: The Definitive Guide Chapter 6: Tomcat Security By Jason Brittain, Ian F. Darwin

WebLogic: The Definitive Guide Chapter 18: XML By Jon Mountjoy, Avinash Chugh

The Complete Java 2 Certification Guide Chapter 6: Objects and Classes By Simon Roberts, Philip Heller, and Michael Ernest

Professional SCWCD Certification Chapter 4, Designing and Developing Servlets to Handle Server-Side Exceptions by Sam Dalton and Dan Jepp

SunTM Certified Web Component Development (SCWCD) Exam Study Kit Chapter 9, Developing Secure Web Applications Chapter 14, Using JavaBeans by Hanumant Deshmukh and Jignesh Malavia

Programmer's Guide to Java Certification: A Comprehensive Primer Chapter 7: Inner Classes by Khalid Azim Mughal and Rolf W. Rasmussen

Applying Enterprise JavaBeans Chapter 9, Using Enterprise JavaBeans in Web Services by Vlada Matena, Sanjeev Krishnan, Linda DeMichiel, and Beth Stearns

Professional EJB Chapter 5: The EJB 2.0 Entity Model Chapter 9: Transactions and EJB by With Chapters By Dan O'Connor and Dave Young

Special Edition Using EJB 2.0 Chapter 3, EJB Concepts Chapter 14, Security Design and Management by Vlada Matena, Sanjeev Krishnan, Linda DeMichiel, and Beth Stearns

Professional EJB Chapter 5: The EJB 2.0 Entity Model Chapter 9: Transactions and EJB by With Chapters By Dan O'Connor and Dave Young

Applying Enterprise JavaBeans: Component-Based Development for the J2EE Platform Chapter 1 : Advantages of the Enterprise JavaBeans Architecture Chapter 8: Understanding Transactions by by Vlada Matena and Beth Stearns

Graphic Java 2, Volume 1, AWT Chapter 9 : The Delegation Event Model (AWT 1.1 and Beyond) Chapter 20: Clipboard and Data Transfer By David M. Geary

3D User Interfaces with Java 3D Chapter 11: UI spaces and the scene graph Chapter 17: Control basics by Jon Barrilleaux

Java 2D API Graphics Chapter 6: The Graphic Layers Framework Fundamentals Chapter 15: Tinting Photographs By Vincent Hardy

John Zukowski's Definitive Guide to Swing for Java 2 Chapter 2, "Event Handling with the Swing Component Set" By Vincent Hardy

Graphic Java 1.2: Mastering the JFC Volume 1 - AWT Chapter 3: Graphics covers the use of graphics in AWT by David M. Geary

J2EE Developer's Handbook Chapter 4, JAXP Chapter 28, EJB Assurance Services by Paul J. Perrone, Venkata S.R. "Krishna" R. Chaganti, and Tom Schwenk

Core J2EE Patterns (Core Design Series): Best Practices and Design Strategies Chapter 3: Business Tier Design Considerations and Bad Practices Chapter 5, J2EE Patterns Overview by Deepak Alur, Dan Malks, John Crupi

Inside Java 2 Platform Security, 2/e: Architecture, API Design and Implementation Chapter 3: Java 2 Security Architecture Chapter 7 : Customizing the Security Architecture by Li Gong, Gary Ellison and Mary Dageforde

Java Enterprise Best Practices Chapter 2 : EJB Best Practices Chapter 10 : JavaMail Best Practices The O'Reilly Java Authors

Developing Java Web Services: Architecting and Developing Secure Web Services Using Java Chapter 8 : XML Processing and Data Binding with Java APIs Chapter 10 : Building RPC Web Services with JAX-RPC by Ramesh Nagappan, Robert Skoczylas, and Rima Patel Sriganesh

Java Web Services Chapter 7 : JAX-RCP and JAXM Chapter 8 : J2EE and Web Sevices by David Chappell and Tyler Jewell

JMX in Action Chapter 2 : "Hello World," the JMX way Chapter 9 : Communicating with JMX agents by Benjamin G. Sullins and Mark B. Whipple

J2EE Design Patterns Applied Chapter 3 : Patterns Applied to a Persistence Framework by Craig A. Berry, John Carnell, Matjaz B. Juric, Meeraj Moidoo Kunnumpurath, Nadia Nashi, and Sasha Romanosky

Building Java Enterprise Applications Volume I: Architecture Chapter 2 : Blueprints Chapter 5 : Advanced Entities by Brett McLaughlin

JavaEnterprise in a Nutshell, Second Edition Chapter 5 : Java Servlets Chapter 14 : IDL Reference by Jim Farley, William Crawford, and David Flanagan

Professional J2EE EAI Chapter 3 : The J2EE Platform for EAI | Chapter 9 : Business-level Integration by Matjaz Juric, Ramesh Nagappan, Rick Leander, S. Jeelani Basha

Designing Enterprise Applications, Second Edition Chapter 1 : Introduction | Chapter 3 : The Client Tier by Inderjeet Singh, Beth Stearns, Mark Johnson and the Enterprise Team

J2EE Connector Architecture and Enterprise Application Integration Chapter 1 : Enterprise Application Integration Chapter 10 : Building a Resource Adapter by Rahul Sharma, Beth Stearns, and Tony Ng

Advanced Programming for the Java Platform Chapter 5: JNI Technology By Calvin Austin and Monica Pawlan

JUnit in Action Chapter 7, Testing in Isolation with Mock Objects by Vincent Massol with Ted Husted

NetBeans: The Definitive Guide Chapter 11 : Working with XML by Vincent Massol with Ted Husted

AspectJ in Action Chapter 3 : AspectJ: Syntax Basics L Chapter 10 : Authentication and Authorization by Ramnivas Laddad

Jakarta Pitfalls: Time-Saving Solutions for Struts, Ant, JUnit, and Cactus (Java Open Source Library Pitfall 2.3 : Copy and Paste Validation Pitfall 4.5 : Performing Business Logic in JSPs by Bill Dudney and Jonathan Lehr

Extreme Programming with Ant: Building and Deploying Java Applications with JSP, EJB, XSLT, XDoclet, and JUnit by Chapter 2 : Creating Initial Spike Tests | Chapter 8 : Deployment to a Production Environment by Bill Dudney and Jonathan Lehr

Jess in Action Chapter 13 : Adding A Graphical Interface by Ernest Friedman-Hill

JXTA in a Nutshell Chapter 2 : Getting Started With JXTA by Ernest Friedman-Hill

Java Extreme Programming Cookbook Chapter 4, JUnit | Chapter 6, Mock Objects by Eric M. Burke and Brian M. Coyner

JSTL in Action Chapter 5 : Controlling Flow with Loops Chapter 11 : Common Tasks by Shawn Bayern

JSTL in Action Chapter 3 : Building a simple application Chapter 12 : Validating user input by Ted N. Husted, Cedric Dumoulin, George Franciscus and David Winterfeldt

JMX in Action Chapter 2 : "Hello World," the JMX way Chapter 9 : Communicating with JMX agents by Benjamin G. Sullins and Mark B. Whipple

Java Development with Ant Chapter 4 : Testing with JUnit | Appendix E : Ant Task Reference by Erik Hatcher and Steve Loughran

Objects First with Java - A Practical Introduction using BlueJ Chapter 2 : Understanding Class Definitions Chapter 6 : Well-behaved Objects by Bruce A. Tate

Bitter Java Chapter 1 : Bitter Tales | Chapter 6: Bitter Memories by Bruce A. Tate

JDK 1.4 Tutorial Chapter 6: Assertion facility Chapter 10 : The Preferences API By Greg Travis

Java Deployment with JNLP and WebStart Chapter 2: An Abstract Model For Deployment Chapter 11 : Runtime Client Services by Dr. Mauro Marinilli

Early Adopter J2SE 1.4 Excerpt-I/O Excerpt-Utilities: The Logging Architecture by James Hart

Java Cookbook Chapter 11 : Programming Serial and Parallel Ports | Chapter 22 : Distributed Java: RMI by Ian Darwin

Java Collections Chapter 2 : Arrays Chapter 9 : Lists By John Zukowski

Core Java 2, Volume 1: Fundamentals Chapter 6 : Interfaces and Inner Classes By Cay S. Horstmann and Gary Cornell

Java Thread Programming Chapter 9 : Threads and Swing Chapter 13 : Thread Pooling by Paul Hyde, published by SAMS.

Beginning Java Objects Chapter 9 : Threads and Swing Chapter 13 : Thread Pooling by Paul Hyde, published by SAMS.

Beginning Java 2: JDK 1.3 Version Chapter 11: Threads Chapter 19: Talking to Databases by Ivor Horton

Advanced Programming for the Java 2 Platform Chapter 5: JNI Technology by Ivor Horton

Essentials of the Java Programming Language: A Hands-On Guide Chapter 12: Internationalization by Monica Pawlan

Core Java 2 Volume II Chapter 2: Collections by Cay S. Horstmann and Gary Cornell

Core Jini Chapter 4 : Deployment Scenarios Chapter 6 : In Depth Discovery by W. Keith Edwards

Mastering Java 2 Chapter 16 : Transferring Data Chapter 17 : Java Collections By John Zukowski

The Java Archive File Format excerpted from The Java Tutorial The Java Archive (JAR) File Format By John Zukowski

Murach's Java Servlets and JSP Chapter 4, How to Develop JavaServer Pages Chapter 15, How to Work with HTTP Requests and Responses by Andrea Steelman and Joel Murach

Tomcat Kick Start Chapter 5, Basic Principles of JSPs Chapter 9, Databases and Tomcat by Martin Bond and Debbie Law

More Servlets and JavaServer Pages Chapter 5: Controlling Web Application Behavior with web.xml Chapter 9: Servlet and JSP Filters by Marty Hall

Web Development with JavaServer Pages (2nd Edition) Chapter 3 : First steps Chapter 9 : Working with databases By Duane K. Fields, Mark A. Kolb, and Shawn Bayern

JSP Tag Libraries Chapter 6 : Tag Development Techniques Chapter 8 : Using JavaBeans with Tags By Gal Shachor, Adam Chace, and Magnus Rydin

Professional JSP, 2nd Edition, Chapter 12 : JSP and XML Chapter 19 : Debugging JSP and Servlets with chapters by Casey Kochmer and Geert Van Dammeis

Advanced JavaServer Pages Chapter 11 : XML by David Geary

Professional Java Server Programming J2EE Edition Chapter 12 : JSP Tag Extensions Chapter 24 : Design Considerations for J2EE Applications By Wrox Publishing

Professional JSP Chapter 12 : JSP Architecture Chapter 17 : Case Study: J2EE, EJBs, and Tag Libraries | By Wrox Publishing

Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages Chapter 7 : Generating the Server Response: HTTP Response Headers Chapter 14 : Creating Custom JSP Tag Libraries. | By Marty Hall

JDBC API Tutorial and Reference Chapter 1 : Introduction Chapter 2 : Basic Tutorial by Maydene Fisher, Jon Ellis and Jonathan Bruce

JDBC Pocket Reference Sample Excerpt 1 : Executing A Stored Procedure Sample Excerpt 2 : Database Meta Data by Donald Bales

Database Programming with JDBC and Java Chapter 7: Distributed Application Architecture Chapter 8: Distributed Component Models by George Reese

JDBC 2.0 API Tutorial and Reference, Second Edition: Universal Data Access for the Java 2 Platform Chapter 3: Advance Tutorial By Maydene Fisher

JXTA: Java P2P Programming Chapter 3: JXTA Protocols Chapter 8: JXTA and Security by Daniel Brookshier, Navaneeth Krishnan, Darren Govoni and Juan Carlos Soto

Early Adopter JXTA: Peer-to-Peer Computing with Java Chapter 2: JXTA Basics by Sing Li

Java Deployment with JNLP and WebStart Chapter 2: An Abstract Model For Deployment Chapter 11, Runtime Client Services by Dr. Mauro Marinilli

Distributed Programming with Java Chapter 11: Overview of CORBA by Dr. Mauro Marinilli

Pro J2EE 1.4: From Professional to Expert Chapter 3 - Working With JSP 2.0 By Sue Spielman and Meeraj Kunnumpurath

The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace Chapter 3 - Your First SWT Application By Rob Warner, Robert Harris

J2ME Games with MIDP2 Ch. 03 - Using the MIDP 2.0 Games API By Carol Hamer

Beginning JSP 2: From Novice to Professional Ch. 08 - Using JSP and XML Together By Peter den Haan, Lance Lavandowska, Sathya Narayana Panduranga, Krishnaraj Perrumal

Enterprise Java Development on a Budget Ch. 06 - Data Storage Options By Brian Sam-Bodden, Christopher M. Judd

Advanced Java Game Programming Chapter 1: Development Setup By David Wallace Croft

Pro Jakarta Commons Chapter 1: Introducing Jakarta Commons: The Uncommon Commons By Harshad Oak

Fast Track UML 2.0 Chapter 4: Use Cases By Kendall Scott

Pro JMX: Java Management Extensions Ch. 03 - The Three-Level Model: Agents By J. Jeffrey Hanson

Java Regular Expressions: Taming the java.util.regex Engine Chapter 5: Practical Examples By Mehran Habibi

Oracle JDeveloper 10g: Empowering J2EE Development Chapter 5: Servlet and JSP Development By Harshad Oak

Maximizing Performance and Scalability with IBM Chapter 1: The Need for Performance By Adam G. Neat

JBoss 3.2 Deployment and Administration Ch. 01 - JBoss Server 3.x Features By Meeraj Kunnumpurath

Enterprise Java for SAP Chapter 5: Building a Desktop Interface to SAP By Austin Sincock

Java Persistence for Relational Databases Chapter 10: Persistence with Java Data Objects (JDO) By Richard Sperko

Using and Understanding Java Data Objects Chapter 8: Using JDO to Learn More By David Ezzio

WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5.0: Practical J2EE Development Chapter 9: J2EE Enterprise Messaging By Igor Livshin

Logging in Java with the JDK 1.4 Logging API and Apache log4j Chapter 5: Understanding Apache log4j By Samudra Gupta

Web Service Patterns: Java Edition Chapter 4: Exploring the Architecture Adapter Pattern By Paul B. Monday

Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1 Chapter 3: The Architecture of Enterprise JavaBeans By Stefan Denninger, Ingo Peters, Rob Castaneda

Bluetooth For Java Chapter 3: Before You Get Started By Bruce Hopkins, Ranjith Antony

Creating Web Portals with BEA WebLogic Chapter 2: Building a Portal from Scratch By Howard Block, Rob Castle, David Hritz

Wireless Java: Developing with J2ME, Second Edition Chapter 5: Creating a User Interface By Jonathan Knudsen

Bug Patterns in Java Chapter 2: Bugs, Specifications, and Implementations By Eric Allen

The Sun Certified Java Developer Exam with J2SE 1.4 Chapter 7: NIO By Terry Camerlengo, Mehran Habibi, Jeremy Patterson

JSP Examples and Best Practices Chapter 05, Development Using Patterns By Andrew Patzer

Learn Java with JBuilder 6 Skill 16: Delivering Programs By John Zukowski

Apache Jakarta-Tomcat Chapter 1, Jakarta Tomcat By James Goodwill

Architecting Web Services Chapter 2: Web Services Architecture By William Oellermann

Java Collections Chapter 2, Arrays By John Zukowski

Definitive Guide to Swing for Java 2, Second Edition Chapter 17: Tables By John Zukowski

A Programmer's Guide to Jini Technology Chapter 13, More Complex Examples By Jan Newmarch

Taming Java Threads Chapter 10: If I Were King: Fixing Java's Threading Problems By Allen Holub

Up to Speed with Swing, 2nd Edition Chapter 3 : Using Swing Components Chapter 10 : List Boxes By Steven Gutz

Instant Messaging in Java Chapter 1 : Introduction to IM Concepts Chapter 4 : The Jabber Message protocols By Iain Shigeoka

SCWCD Exam Study Kit Chapter 9 : Develop Secure Web Applications Chapter 14 : using JavaBeams By Hanumant Deshmukh and Jignesh Malavia

Java 3D Programming Chapter 1 : What is Java 3 and is it for me ? Chapter 13 : Writing custom behaviors By Daniel Selman

J2EE and XML Development Chapter 2 : XML and Java Chapter 5 : User interface development By Kurt A. Gabrick and David B. Weiss

Web Development with JavaServer Pages, 2nd Edition Chapter 8 : XML and Java By Duane K. Fields, Mark A. Kolb, and Shawn Bayern

Domino Development with Java Chapter 4 : NotesFactory/NotesThread/NotesError classes Chapter 8 : Working with collections By Anthony Patton