Chapter 10. Extending ColdFusion with Java

You now have much of the basic knowledge required to write Java programs of any complexity. A good portion of the remainder of your work is to become as familiar with the API as you can. The concepts you already know regarding classes and objects and OOP principles are all you need to understand the API and implement it. Classes relate hierarchically to make objects that hold data and define operations. That is it.

The principles are the same whether you're using a JPanel object or an Employee object or a String object. So in order to begin programming more complex applications, the main thing to do is dive into the API and find out what is available and start working with different items, applying and ...

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