Index A abs method.................................................... 181 absolute............................................................... path.......................................................... 241 absolute positioning....................................... 351 abstract class..................................................196 abstract keyword............................................196 abstract method..............................................197 Abstract Window Toolkit....................... 293, 433 abstraction....................................................... 77 accept method................................................466 access control.................................................. 90 access control modifier.............................. 90, 92 accessibility in inheritance.............................155 acos method................................................... 181 action............................................................... 76 action event................................................... 353 actionPerformed method........354, 357, 361, 369 add method....207, 208, 212, 225, 227, 295, 296, 297, 302 addActionListener method.............353, 356, 361 addAll method............................................... 207 addition operator..............................................45 after method...................................................182 AJAX............................................................ 432 American Standard Code for Information Interchange.................................................26 character set............................................... 6 2 annotating annotation....................................406 annotation...................................................... 405 syntax....................................................... 406 annotation type......................................406, 407 annotationType method.................................407 anonymous inner class................................... 287 Apache Geronimo..............................................7 append................................................................. method..................................................... 130 applet............................................................. 431 history of.................................................. 431 life cycle................................................... 433 passing parameters to...............................441 applet security............................................... 63 5 applet tag............................................... 441, 448 applet-desc element....................................... 652 application directory...................................... 593 application server.............................................. 7 open source.................................................. 7 application-desc element...............................652 archive attribute............................................. 448 arithmetic operator...........................................45 array.............................................................. 133 changing size............................................ 136 component type........................................ 134 creating.....................................................134 declaration................................................ 134 initial value...............................................135 iterating.................................................... 136 limitation of.............................................. 205 size........................................................... 134 arraycopy method.......................................... 142 ASCII.............................................................. 26 asin method................................................... 181 assignment operator......................................... 51 atan method................................................... 181 atomic operation............................................ 511 AtomicBoolean..............................................531 AtomicInteger................................................531 AtomicLong.................................................. 531 AtomicReference........................................... 531 attribute........................................................... 76 audio format.................................................. 436 authentication........................................566, 567 author tag.......................................................633 autoFlushattribute.......................................... 624 available method............................................251 AWT...................................................... 293, 376