Wicked Cool Java

Organization of This Book

This book is organized into eight chapters, each covering a particular area of Java. The following gives a short outline of each chapter:

Chapter 1

In the first chapter, we discuss some of the core API features—some that are older but less well known and some that are new to Java 5. We discuss the new for loop, enums, generics, anonymous classes, and assertions.

Chapter 2

Next we discuss String processing techniques. We start with regular expressions, and we also discuss random text, arrays, binary strings, and message formatting. Regex is a very powerful tool for searching, splitting, and substituting text. It has been around since Java 1.4, and many new Java programmers are still not familiar with it. Regular expressions ...