Other Java books focus on history, theory, or technical details. Instant Java lets you use your text, your images, and your sound on your Web pages right now.

The first techniques-oriented cookbook for servlet programming, this book provides ready-to-use solutions to hundreds of common problems. Filled with over 200 working examples, it covers topics ranging from database access to dynamic Web page creation, from legacy systems to e-commerce.

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For the new Java programmer who appreciates short-cuts, this book contains applets that offer a painless way to add Java interactivity to Web pages without going through the usual hours of programming necessary to produce a cool applet. The CD can be used as is, or the code can be modified to produce new applets.

Distributed CORBA Objects have found their killer app. It's the Object Web-or the marriage of distributed objects and the Internet. The major computing companies-including Sun, JavaSoft, IBM, Netscape, Apple, Oracle, BEA, and HP-have chosen CORBA IIOP as their common way to connect distributed objects across the Internet and intranets. Consequently, CORBA is about to become as ubiquitous as TCP/IP. Instant CORBA is your quick guide to understanding this revolutionary new technology. If you're in a real hurry, this book even provides a condensed tour that will make you CORBA literate in four hours or less. Written in a friendly and witty style, this comprehensive book covers: * The Object Web-or how CORBA/IIOP, Java, and the Internet are coming together * Everything you need to know about a CORBA 2.0 ORB * The 15 CORBA Object Services-including Transactions, Trader, Security, Naming, Events, Time, and Collections. These services provide the next step in the evolution of distributed objects. * CORBA's Dynamic Object Facilities such as Callbacks, Dynamic Invocations, Object Introspection, and the Interface Repository * Next-generation ORB technology-including CORBA 3.0's. Messaging, Pass-by-Value, and Server-Side Frameworks * The marriage of CORBA with MOM and TP Monitors * Forthcoming CORBA attractions such as mobile agents, shippable places, and the business object framework * Products such as Iona's OrbixWeb, Netscape/Visigenic's VisiBroker, and Sun's NEO/JOE. The authors have written many best-selling books, including The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide and The Essential Client/Server Survival Guide, Second Edition, which won Software Development's Jolt Award for the best book of 1994, in its first edition. Their most recent book is Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA.

This book covers all the essential information any programmer needs to get started with Java. "Just Java" starts with the basics and then describes more advanced elements, such as window and network programming in Java. The CD-ROM includes all Java source code examples from the book, Java applets, the latest release of the Java Developer's Kit, and Cafe Lite.

An insider's guide to writing Java-powered Web pages with JavaStudio, this book shows how without writing a single line of code. The hands-on format can be used as both a tutorial and reference, depending on the experience level. The CD-ROM contains a full, working 30-day "try and buy" version of JavaStudio.

Completely updated to cover the changes in the latest release of SunSoft's Web-Browser-based Java WorkShop development environment, this book takes readers on a tour of the product, teaches them how to use it, and imparts strategies for developing successfully with it. The CD-ROM contains a demo version of JWS and all source code and examples from the book.

Introducing the abstract window toolkit; The graphic java toolkit - extending the AWT.

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. A beginner’s guide to Apache Camel that walks you through basic operations like installation and setup right through to developing simple applications.This book is a good starting point for Java developers who have to work on an application dealing with various systems and interfaces but who haven't yet started using Enterprise System Buses or Java Business Integration frameworks.