Foreword

I recently had the privilege of tech reviewing Kishori Sharan's Beginning Java 8 APIs, Extensions, and Libraries book, which continues on from his Beginning Java 8 Language Features book by covering more advanced Java APIs. Within this volume, you learn about Swing, applets, network programming, JDBC, remote method invocation, the Java Native Interface, JavaFX, and Java's scripting framework.

This book offers a wealth of detail. For example, in his chapter on JDBC, Kishori covers  result sets along with row sets, which derive from result sets, and which you might expect to see covered in a book focused on enterprise Java. Kishori also provides decent coverage of Java's Swing user interface API while not shying away from the modern JavaFX ...

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