Revised chapter openings – Now emphasize applications to help students to understand the type of problem being introduced in that chapter.

• Former Chapter 7 now split into Chapter 7 and Chapter 9 – The new chapter 7 introduces objects and classes and chapter 9 focuses on class design.

• New optional sections on GUI’s at the end of Ch. 2 — 6 using JOptionPane. More complete coverage of the Swing library can be found in Ch. 13.

• UML notation is used in every example beginning in Ch. 8 along with additional notes to describe the relationships.  

• New chapters on data structures:

– Chapter 21, “Generics,” presents an in-depth coverage on generics. Generics is now covered before Java Collections Framework so it can be incorporated with the data structures.

– Chapter 23, “Algorithm Efficiency,” is brand new to use many concrete examples to introduce algorithm analysis and design.

– New chapters 27-28 introduce graph applications.

• New chapter on JSF for visual Web development.

• New chapter on Web services.

• Several non-essential topics moved to the text’s Companion Website, to help students focus on learning problem solving and programming techniques:

– These topics include the & and | operators, the discussion on how expressions are evaluated internally in Java, regular expressions, initialization blocks, how to package Java projects into archive files, and more.

– Advanced language details are now online.  

– Last six chapters on web 38, 39, 40, 43 were in book and are now on CD.  41, 42 are new and are on CD.
 

• Problem-driven, new examples and exercises:

20% of programming examples are new

30% of programming exercises are new