Get an introduction to Java programming while you learn to develop Java applications for various runtime environments—desktop, web, and mobile—with Eclipse. Author Todd Perkins explains how to configure the development environment, and reviews the basic building blocks of the Java syntax: variables, functions, arrays, conditional statements, classes, and input/output. In chapters 3 and 4, he builds a user interface with the Swing framework, the GUI toolkit for Java, and connects Swing's table components to different data sources. He also covers NetBeans, an alternative IDE for working with JavaServer Pages (JSP), and publishing workflows for desktop applications (via JAR files) and Android apps built with Java.