Here's the book you need to prepare for the Java 2 Programmer's and Developer's exams. This study guide provides: an in-depth coverage of every exam objective for the Programmer's exam for J2SE 1.4; hundreds of challenging practice questions; and leading-edge exam preparation software, including a test engine, sample simulation questions, and the entire book on PDF. It offers authoritative coverage of all Programmer's exam objectives, including: language fundamentals; operators and assignments; modifiers; converting and casting; flow control, exceptions, and assertions; objects and classes; threads; and the java.lang and java.util packages. It also includes an in-depth coverage of the topics covered in the Developer's exam, including: swing components and events, layout managers, enhancing and extending the database, writing the network protocol, building the database server, and connecting the client and server.