The revised edition of the classic Core Java(t), Volume II-Advanced Features, covers advanced user-interface programming and the enterprise features of the Java SE 6 platform. Like Volume I (which covers the core language and library features), this volume has been updated for Java SE 6 and new coverage is highlighted throughout. All sample programs have been carefully crafted to illustrate the latest programming techniques, displaying best-practices solutions to the types of real-world problems professional developers encounter. Volume II includes new sections on the StAX API, JDBC 4, compiler API, scripting framework, splash screen and tray APIs, and many other Java SE 6 enhancements. In this book, the authors focus on the more advanced features of the Java language, including complete coverage of * Streams and Files* Networking* Database programming* XML* JNDI and LDAP* Internationalization* Advanced GUI components* Java 2D and advanced AWT* JavaBeans* Security* RMI and Web services* Collections* Annotations* Native methods For thorough coverage of Java fundamentals-including interfaces and inner classes, GUI programming with Swing, exception handling, generics, collections, and concurrency-look for the eighth edition of Core Java(t), Volume I-Fundamentals (ISBN: 978-0-13-235476-9).