Product Description

As if the World Wide Web isn’t reason enough to do cartwheels down the street, the globe is now ablaze with the fire of a different flavor: Java – a fresh blend of technologies that bring the Web to life with dazzling animation, pulse-pounding sound, and full-blown interactivity, the likes of which the online community has never seen.

One of the wonderful things about Java is its universal appeal; all Web surfers can add a dash or two of Java to their Web pages, bringing their Web sites to life with little effort.  And even if you’ve never seen Java in action before, you’re going to be just fine with Java For Dummies, 3rd Edition at your side. Assuming that you’re comfortable using your computer, you’re soon likely to find yourself surfing the seas of Java on the World Wide Web, creating your very own Java-powered pages, and hooking up Java applications on your desktop computer.

If you want, you can read this book from front to back. But each part of Java For Dummies, 3rd Edition stands on its own. You'll uncover information about

• Exactly why everyone on the Web seems to be scrambling for a taste of Java
• How to use the Java applets
• When to customize the applets to fit your needs
• How Java desktop applications differ from their Web-oriented applet counterparts
• What to do to make some nifty, kick-butt Java applications for your desktop
• How to overcome the top Java snafus

Java For Dummies offers everything you need to know to inject your pages and desktop with the appropriate flavor of Java. As icing on the cake (or cream in your coffee, if you prefer), you'll discover the best places on the Web to satisfy the constant Java cravings you’re sure to get. Brace yourself – you stand a good chance of becoming a serious Java addict.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #295151 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 404 pages

From the Back Cover
Now You Can Use the Hottest Technology to Create the Coolest Web Site — No Programming Required!

• The Fun and Easy Way to Build State-of-the Art Web Sites
• Your First Aid Kit® for Installing and Customizing Java Desktop Applications
• Java Development Toolkit and Runtime Environment — Explained in Plain English

Find Out How to Use the Hottest Technology to Create the Coolest Web Sites

Get your EXCLUSIVE copy of Living Desktop — The Automated Desktop Artwork Application!

Tap into the most exciting technology to hit the Web—since the Web itself! With Java For Dummies, 3rd Edition, it's never been easier to get hooked on Java. With expert advice from Java master Aaron Walsh, you'll quickly and easily figure out how to set up Java applications on your desktop and weave pre-made Java applets, sound/video clips, and special effects into Web magic.

Inside, find helpful advice on how to:

• Find the best sources for Java applets and full-featured Java applications on the Web — Web sites, newsgroup, and e-zines
• Modify Java applets and applications — without touching any code
• Bring your Web site to life with animations, music, marquees, and other multimedia tricks
• Get your hand on the latest Java-savvy browsers — including Internet Explorer 5.0, Netscape Navigator 4.5, and HotJava
• Supercharge your desktop with cutting-edge Java applications

Jazz Up Your Web Pages and Desktop with:

• AT&T WorldNet® Service for easy access to the Internet
• Living Desktop — an automated desktop artwork application
• Cool Beans — an updated collection of the hippest applets, beans, and scripts available
• Goodies — Tools for Mac and Windows users to help you download, upload, and decompress files
• CookBook Pages — sample Web pages with applets, beans, and scripts in action, some are created by readers just like you

Technical Review by Rich Burridge, Sun Microsystem, Java Media group

About the Author

Aaron E. Walsh is President and CEO of Mantis Development Corporation, a Boston-based software development firm specializing in advanced multimedia and network technologies, and an international best-selling author for IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.

Formerly the manager of Boston College's Advanced Technology Group (ATG), Aaron was lead software architect and engineer for a number of advanced technology projects developed at Boston College, including robust client/server technologies that predate the World Wide Web. While at Boston College, Aaron also wrote the core software system for Eagle Eyes, a research project that allows users to navigate their personal computer through eye movement alone. Under development for over four years, Eagle Eyes was selected as a finalist in Discover Magazine's 1994 Awards for Technical Innovation.

In 1992, Aaron co-founded Mantis Development Corporation, where he currently leads development of advanced software technologies based on the Java programming language developed by Sun Microsystems. He is the author of several articles for MacTech magazine (formerly MacTutor) and Dr. Dobb's Programming Journal, and has written a number of books for IDG Books Worldwide, including Destination™ Multimedia, Java™ For Dummies®, Foundations™ of Java™ Programming for the World Wide Web, as well as the forthcoming Java™ Bible and Visual InterDev™ For Dummies®. In addition, Aaron is a regular columnist for Java Report, the leading print magazine for serious Java programmers, where he writes the Network Computing column.

Aaron is also the chairman of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) Universal Media Library (UML) working group, a formal VRML Consortium research group. With an immediate mission to "...increase the realism of VRML worlds and decrease network downloads by defining a small, cross-platform library of locally resident media elements (textures, sounds and VRML objects) and a uniform mechanism by which VRML content creators can incorporate these media elements into their worlds," Aaron believes that the technology brought to fruition by his group will ultimately offer significant advantages to the entire World Wide Web.

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Customer Reviews

I was almost taken for a ride.
I bought the book in passing at the book store. because i was sure that my understanding of Java would undoubtedly increase if only to some small degree.

We all know that Java is such an enormous beast of a programming language that although it's been tackled countless times, it seemingly can never be even partially conquered.

So i gave ita shot.

I read from page 1-120 on the first night, and returned the book to the book store the next day.

There is more Java in my now-empty cup of coffee than there is in this entire book.

Not one line of code in this book. That's right. Not one line of Java Code. There are however countless tags showing you basically how to use applets created and written IN JAVA by somone else.

In short it shows you how to use other peoples java.

I would have dipped into STUPID had i not brought the book back to the store the very next day, instead i reamain simply a DUMMIE for having bought it in the first place.

I thought it was just me
This is a terrible book. I thought, 'mabye I have some mental block against learning java', beciase no matter how hard I tried, I could not get anything out of this book. I knew C, C++ and assembly, but got NOTHING from this book. Then I picked up a different book(can't remember the title), and learned an incredible amount in only a few days. Do not buy.

this is not programming
i thought this was a programming book and i could learn commands etc and syntaxes etc of java language but this book has no commands or does not treat java as a language but as a tool and says you can use java in webpages without a single line of code!

i did not read the book though once surfing through the pages i came to know it is not a programmers book,not a java programming starters tool!

maybe i have to buy another book to learn programming!

this may not be what you think it is!