The book has been written to give an excellent grounding to those who wish to learn application development using Java 2.0 and Enterprise Java. Like all his earlier books this book also has several illustrative examples .which have a logical link between them.?Each set of example helping build skills that will take the reader to the next set of examples ,which in turn lead upwards until a strong programming foundation using Java 2.0 and Enterprises Java has been established.

Table of Contents: ? Chapter 1 ?? Data Types ,Operators and Constructs Chapter 2 ?? Classes, Objects and Inheritance Chapter 3 -?? Interfaces and Packages Chapter 4 ?? Exceptions Chapter 5 ?? Threads Chapter 6 ?? The Java. Lang Package Chapter 7 -?? The Java. UTIL Package Chapter 8 -?? The Java.AWT Package Chapter 9 -?? The Java. IO Package Chapter 10 ? The Java. Applet Chapter 11 ? The Java. Swing Package Chapter 12 -? The Java. SQL Package