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JAY CROSS is an instructor for Sun User Group's (SUG) Internet Academy and head of SUG course development. He has nearly two decades of experience as a software developer, and is an author of the bestselling Special Edition: Using Java.

AL SAGANICH is an independent software consultant and has worked for such prestigious firms as Thomson Financial Services and Dun & Bradstreet, and is currently under contract to Digital Equipment Corp. He has over a dozen years of computer experience and has taught mathematics and computer science courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Partial table of contents:

JAVA ESSENTIALS.

Object-Oriented Programming Concepts.

Java and the Java Virtual Machine.

Java Keywords and Other Tokens.

Java Classes, Objects, and Interfaces.

Threads in Java.

Exceptions in Java.

Java Applets & the java.applet Package.

The Java Abstract Window Toolkit (java.awt).

The java.io Package.

The java.util Package.

The java.net Package.

Native Code.

LEARNING VISUAL J++.

Introducing the Visual J++ Developers Studio.

The Java AppWizard Explained.

Introducing the Visual J++ Resource Editors.

The Visual J++ Workspace.

More Debugging Technique.

The Visual J++ Dialog and Menu Editors.

The Visual J++ Source Editor.

ADVANCED TOPICS.

Techniques for Animation.

Appendices.

Glossary of Terms.

Index.

What's on the CD-ROM.