About the Author

Kim Topley is a freelance computer consultant, based in England. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, writing microcode for mainframe computers, device drivers, file systems, and security features for the UNIX operating system, communications protocol stacks for Cray supercomputers, and C and Java applications for financial institutions. He learned Java as a result of a chance encounter with the book Core Java in a bookshop in 1995 and has written four Java books—Core JFC and Core Swing: Advanced Programming, both published by Prentice Hall, and J2ME in a Nutshell and Java Web Services in a Nutshell for O’Reilly Media. Kim has a keen interest in space flight and aviation and has a private pilot’s license, which ...

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