Java Programming

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Course Description:

Intensive and hands-on, the course emphasizes becoming productive quickly as a Java application developer. This course quickly covers the Java 5.0 language syntax and then moves into the object-oriented features of the language. Students will then use several of the provided API packages, such as I/O streams, collections, Swing GUI programming, threads, and accessing a database with JDBC. The course ends with a chapter on performance tuning with hints and best practices for writing efficient applications. Appendices on sockets, regular expressions and J2EE are also available for further study.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of Object-Oriented concepts is required.

Course Outline:

• What is Java?
• How to Get Java
• A First Java Program
• Compiling and Interpreting Applications
• The JDK Directory Structure

• A Java Program
• If Statements
• Switch Statements
• Loop Statements
• Syntax Details
• Primitive Datatypes
• Variables
• Expressions in Java
• Strings
• Arrays
• Enhanced for Loop

• Defining a Class
• Creating an Object
• Instance Data and Class Data
• Methods
• Constructors
• Access Modifiers
• Encapsulation

• Printing to the Console
• printf Format Strings
• StringBuilder and StringBuffer
• Methods and Messages
• toString
• Parameter Passing
• Comparing and Identifying Objects
• Destroying Objects
• Using the Primitive-Type Wrapper Classes
• Autoboxing

• Inheritance
• Inheritance in Java
• Casting
• Method Overriding
• Polymorphism
• super
• The Object Class

• Enumerated Types - Pre-Java 5.0
• Enumerated Types Today
• More Enumerated Types
• Abstract Classes
• Interfaces
• Using Interfaces
• Comparable
• Collections
• Generics

• Packages
• The import Statement
• Static Imports
• CLASSPATH and Import
• Defining Packages
• Package Scope

• Exceptions Overview
• Catching Exceptions
• The finally Block
• Exception Methods
• Declaring Exceptions
• Defining and Throwing Exceptions
• Errors and RuntimeExceptions
• Assertions

• Overview of Streams
• Bytes vs. Characters
• Converting Byte Streams to Character Streams
• File Object
• Binary Input and Output
• PrintWriter Class
• Reading and Writing Objects
• Basic and Filtered Streams

• The Collections Framework
• The Set Interface
• Set Implementation Classes
• The List Interface
• List Implementation Classes
• The Queue Interface
• Queue Implementation Classes
• The Map Interface
• Map Implementation Classes

• Using Java 5.0 Features with Collections
• Sorting with Comparable
• Sorting with Comparator
• Sorting Lists and Arrays
• Collections Utility Methods
• Tuning ArrayList
• Tuning HashMap and HashSet

• Inner Classes
• Member Classes
• Local Classes
• Anonymous Classes
• Instance Initializers
• Static Nested Classes

• AWT and Swing
• Displaying a Window
• GUI Programming in Java
• Handling Events
• Arranging Components
• A Scrollable Component
• Configuring Components
• Menus
• Using the JfileChooser

• The Java Event Delegation Model
• Action Events
• List Selection Events
• Mouse Events
• Layout Managers
• BorderLayout
• FlowLayout
• GridLayout
• BoxLayout
• Box
• JtabbedPane

• The JDBC Connectivity Model
• Database Programming
• Connecting to the Database
• Creating a SQL Query
• Getting the Results
• Updating Database Data
• Finishing Up

• Error Checking and the SQLException Class
• The SQLWarning Class
• JDBC Types
• Executing SQL Queries
• ResultSetMetaData
• Executing SQL Updates
• Using a PreparedStatement
• Parameterized Statements
• Stored Procedures
• Transaction Management

• Non-Threaded Applications
• Threaded Applications
• Creating Threads
• Thread States
• Runnable Threads
• Coordinating Threads
• Interrupting Threads
• Runnable Interface
• ThreadGroups

• Race Conditions
• Synchronized Methods
• Deadlocks
• Synchronized Blocks
• Thread Communication — wait()
• Thread Communication — notify()
• Java 5.0 Concurrency Improvements
• Thread-Aware Collections
• Executor
• Callable

• Is Java Slow?
• Don't Optimize Until You Profile
• HotSpot Virtual Machine
• Garbage Collection Concepts
• Garbage Collection Generations
• Garbage Collection in Java 5.0
• Object Creation
• String, StringBuffer, and StringBuilder
• Synchronized
• Inline methods
• Tuning Collections

• Clients and Servers
• Ports, Addresses, and Protocols
• The Socket Class
• Communication Using I/O
• Servers
• The ServerSocket Class
• Concurrent Servers
• The URL Class
• The URLConnection Class

• Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions
• Regular Expressions in Java
• Regular Expression Syntax
• Special Characters
• Quantifiers
• Assertions
• The Pattern Class
• The Matcher Class
• Capturing Groups

• Introduction to J2EE
• J2SE Building Blocks
• Servlets, JSPs, and Web Applications
• Web Services
• Enterprise JavaBeans
• Additional J2EE APIs
• J2EE Clients
• The J2EE Platform