Introduction

Welcome to Java For Dummies Quick Reference — the one Java book that’s designed to sit on your desk for handy reference when you need to look up one of those nasty little details that everyone all-too-often tends to forget, such as the name of that one method of the it’sonthetipofmytongue class or the exact syntax of the whatchamacallit command.

This book contains handy, fast reference information for the most commonly used Java statements and language features, including the syntax for basic statements and all the arcane details of object-oriented programming (abstract classes, inheritance, inner classes, generics, and so on).

You also find fast reference information for the most commonly used application programming interface (API) classes, including collection classes, stream and file I/O classes, regular expressions, and Swing classes.