The book has been written to give an excellent grounding to those who wish to learn application development using JDK 2.X.Like all his earlier books this book also has several illustrative examples which have a logical link between them.   Each set of examples helping build skills that will take the reader to the next set of examples, which in turn lead upwards until a strong programming foundation using JDK 2.0X has been established.   Each topics is very liberally sprinkled with examples that are mapped to applications which fit in the real world.All examples code is on the enclosed CD-ROM,Which also contains several other goodies,which would be useful if you are looking at working on the Internet as a way of life.Most of the stuff on the CD-ROM Can definitely be used to enhance your web skills.   Table of contents:   Chapter  1        Introduction to java Chapter  2        Object-oriented programming Chapter  3        Java Classes Chapter  4        Java Programs Chapter  5        Working with user interfaces Chapter  6        Java applets Chapter  7        Event-driven programming Chapter  8        Java swing Part-I Chapter  9        Swing part-II Chapter 10        Java exception handling Chapter 11        Java database connectivity Chapter 12        Java multi-threading Chapter 13        Java remote method invocation (RMI) Chapter 14        Java Servlets Chapter 15        Introduction to apache server Chapter 16        Introduction to apache JavaServets Chapter 17        Networking basics Chapter 18        Introduction to java beans Chapter 19        Java projects Chapter 20        Classified adverting Chapter 21        Guest book Chapter 22        Newsletter Chapter 23        Penpals