- A comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the language
- Covers SE 6 version (JDK 1.6)
- Includes a free CD-ROM

The book teaches the Java language and its secrets in a careful and understandable way.

The presentation starts from basic topics and reaches advanced ones, such as servlets and JavaBeans.

At the end of each chapter, there are questions and exercises for further practice, while the answers to the questions and exercises are included on the accompanying CD-ROM in PDF format, along with the source code of the book's examples.

Among other things, the book examines:

- Basic language topics, such as data types, variables, branching and looping structures, string handling, etc.
- Object-oriented programming topics, such as classes, objects, object methods, inheritance, and polymorphism.
- The concept of event-driven programming.
- Graphics, animation, and creating user interfaces with graphics (GUI) using the AWT and Swing libraries.
- Advanced topics, such as input/output (I/O) techniques, multithreading, database creation, Derby DBMS, remote method invocation (RMI), servlets, JavaBeans, Java, and XML.
- The most important Java development environments (IDEs), such as NetBeans, Eclipse, JBuilder, BluJ, JCreator, and Visual J#.

All the concepts covered in the book are explained with simple, standalone, and understandable examples. The material covered in the book is updated and revised for the Java 6 version.