The next version of Java, code-named Tiger, is more than just a minor update. With over 100 substantial changes to the core language, as well as numerous library and API additions, developers have a variety of new features, facilities, and techniques available. But with so many changes, where do you start? You could read through the lengthy and often boring language specification; you could wait for the latest 500-page tome on concepts and theory; you could even play around with the new JDK, hoping you figure things out -- or you can get straight to work with Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook. This no-nonsense, down-and-dirty guide by bestselling Java authors Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan skips all the boring prose and lecture and jumps right into Tiger. You'll have a handle on many of the important new features of the language by the end of the first chapter, and be neck-deep in code before you hit page 20. Through more than 50 working code samples, you'll get complete practical coverage of generics, learn how boxing and unboxing affects your type conversions, understand the power of varargs, learn how to write enumerated types and annotations, master Java's new formatting methods and the for/in loop, and even get a grip on concurrency in the JVM
Chapter 1 What’s New?
Chapter 2 Generics
Chapter 3 Enumerated Types
Chapter 4 Autoboxing and Unboxing
Chapter 5 Varargs
Chapter 6 Annotations
Chapter 7 The for/in Statement
Chapter 8 Static Imports
Chapter 9 Formatting
Chapter 10 Threading
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