John Howard Griffin Books

The increasing popularity of the Internet has resulted in the majority of today's programming tasks and applications involving some form of networking. Almost every programming language provides some networking facilities. However, unlike other programming languages, Java had support for network programming built into it right from the start. Java, therefore, allows you to develop powerful network applications with exceptional ease. This book introduces you to the world of Java network programming and takes you far inside it. The chapters of this book are grouped in five sections. The first section looks at network basics. Java networking preliminaries are then covered in the following section. The third section explores classes that are provided by Java to handle a variety of network tasks. Java API's that are used for distributed network programming are covered in section four. The fifth and final section investigates new networking features and improvements offered by JDK 1.4. This book

This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.

Der Trappistenmönch Thomas Merton (1915-68) zählt zu den wichtigsten christlichen Personen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit seinem Leben hat er viele Menschen nachhaltig beeindruckt und geprägt. Die offizielle Biografie beschreibt die entscheidenden Jahre seines Lebens, in denen er aus der Stille der Einsiedelei für Frieden und Gerechtigkeit kämpfte.