Java 6 New Features

For seasoned Java programmers who want to stay up to date on the latest Java tools, this guide discusses the new features of Java 6–Mustang. This handbook to the new version includes updated information on Web services, a JavaScript engine that allows access to information in a Java program, JDBC 4.0, JAXB 2.0, XML digital signature APIs, more sophisticated Swing components, and improvements in Java 2D that includes a GIF image writer.

For seasoned Java programmers who want to stay up to date on the latest Java tools, this guide discusses the new features of Java 6–Mustang. This handbook to the new version includes updated information on Web services, a JavaScript engine that allows access to information in a Java program, JDBC 4.0, JAXB 2.0, XML digital signature APIs, more sophisticated Swing components, and improvements in Java 2D that includes a GIF image writer.

Budi Kurniawan is a senior architect at BrainySoftware.com and the author of  Java for the Web with Servlets, JSP, and EJB and Struts Design and Programming, and the coauthor of How Tomcat Works. He has published more than 100 articles and has written software that is licensed by major corporations worldwide.