Paul Andrews has worked for over 20 years as a computer scientist in the IT industry and has been actively programming in Java since 1997. Paul specializes in the design of large distributed OO architectures for the implementation of secure e-commerce systems.
One of the strengths of Java is the abundance of standard APIs for doing
everything from enterprise-level data access to manipulating data structures,
sending and receiving e-mail and building GUIs. This broad sweep of APIs
makes choosing how to implement the various parts of an application much
simpler, but it also presents a problem: How do you best use the API?
Javadocs the raw API documentation are never enough for this purpose
because they concentrate on each class or interface as a separate entity from
the other classes. API specifications aren't much better because they deal
with the minutiae of the API and with being a correct specification of how
everything works. The most useful tool I've found for any newcomer to an API
is the Java Tutorials (www.java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html).
These Tutorials guide you to correct and efficient use of an ... (more)
Paul Andrews has worked for over 20 years as a computer scientist in the IT industry and has been actively programming in Java since 1997. Paul specializes in the design of large distributed OO architectures for the implementation of secure e-commerce systems.
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