JDK Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v6.32, by Herong Yang
Character Set Encoding Classes and Methods
This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on character set related classes. Topics include collection types: what is character encoding; JDK supported encodings like: CP1252, ISO-8859, ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16, GB18030; methods to encode characters to byte sequences; methods to decode byte sequences back to characters.
Supported Character Encodings in JDK
Charset.encode() - Method to Encode Characters
Running EncodingSampler.java with CP1252 Encoding
Running EncodingSampler.java with ISO-8859-1 and US-ASCII
Running EncodingSampler.java with UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF16-BE
Takeaways:
Table of Contents
Date, Time and Calendar Classes
Date and Time Object and String Conversion
Number Object and Numeric String Conversion
Locales, Localization Methods and Resource Bundles
Calling and Importing Classes Defined in Unnamed Packages
HashSet, Vector, HashMap and Collection Classes
►Character Set Encoding Classes and Methods
Encoding Conversion Programs for Encoded Text Files
Datagram Network Communication
DOM (Document Object Model) - API for XML Files
DTD (Document Type Definition) - XML Validation
XSD (XML Schema Definition) - XML Validation
XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language)
Message Digest Algorithm Implementations in JDK
Private key and Public Key Pair Generation
PKCS#8/X.509 Private/Public Encoding Standards
Digital Signature Algorithm and Sample Program
"keytool" Commands and "keystore" Files
KeyStore and Certificate Classes
Secret Key Generation and Management
Cipher - Encryption and Decryption
The SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Protocol
SSL Socket Communication Testing Programs