Java Training: Intermediate Java Programming

Java Training Outline

• Review of Java Fundamentals
• The Java Architecture
• Forms for Java Software
• Three Platforms
• The Java Language
• Numeric Types
• Characters and Booleans
• Enumerations
• Object References
• Strings and Arrays
• Conditional Constructs
• Looping Constructs
• Varargs
• Object-Oriented Software
• Complex Systems
• Abstraction
• Classes and Objects
• Responsibilities and Collaborators
• UML
• Relationships
• Visibility
• Classes and Objects
• Java Classes
• Constructors and Garbage Collection
• Naming Conventions and JavaBeans
• Relationships Between Classes
• Using this
• Visibility
• Packages and Imports
• Overloading Methods and Constructors
• JARs
• Inheritance and Polymorphism in Java
• UML Specialization
• Extending Classes
• Using Derived Classes
• Type Identification
• Compile-Time and Run-Time Type
• Polymorphism
• Overriding Methods
• The @Override Annotation
• Superclass Reference
• Using Classes Effectively
• Class Loading
• Static Members
• Statics and Non-Statics
• Static Initializers
• Static Imports
• Prohibiting Inheritance
• Costs of Object Creation
• Strings and StringBuffers
• Controlling Object Creation
• Understanding Enumerated Types
• Stateful and Behavioral Enumerations
• Interfaces and Abstract Classes
• Separating Interface and Implementation
• UML Interfaces and Realization
• Defining Interfaces
• Implementing and Extending Interfaces
• Abstract Classes
• Collections
• Dynamic Collections vs. Arrays
• UML Parameterized Type
• Generics
• Using Generics
• The Collections API
• The Collection<E> and List<E> Interfaces
• The ArrayList<E> and LinkedList<E> Classes
• Looping Over Collections: Iterable<E>
• Collecting Primitive Values: Auto-Boxing
• Using Wildcards with Generic Types
• Iterators and the Iterator<E> Interface
• Maps and the Map<K,V> Interface
• Sorted Collections
• The SortedSet<E> and SortedMap<K,V> Interfaces
• The Collections Class Utility
• Algorithms
• Conversion Utilities
• Exception Handling and Logging
• Reporting and Trapping Errors
• Exception Handling
• Throwing Exceptions
• Declaring Exceptions per Method
• Catching Exceptions
• The finally Block
• Catch-and-Release
• Chaining Exceptions
• The J2SE Logging API
• Severity Levels
• Log Hierarchies
• Inner Classes
• Passing Behavior
• Inner Classes in GUI Programming
• Named Inner Classes
• Outer Object Reference
• Static Inner Classes
• Anonymous Inner Classes
• The Java Streams Model
• Delegation-Based Stream Model
• InputStream and OutputStream
• Media-Based Streams
• Filtering Streams
• Readers and Writers
• Working with Files
• File Class
• Modeling Files and Directories
• File Streams
• Random-Access Files
• Advanced Stream Techniques
• Buffering
• Data Streams
• Push-Back Parsing
• Byte-Array Streams and String Readers and Writers
• Java Serialization
• The Challenge of Object Serialization
• Serialization API
• Serializable Interface
• ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream
• The Serialization Engine
• Transient Fields
• readObject and writeObject
• Externalizable Interface
• Automated Unit Testing with JUnit
• Automated Testing
• JUnit and Related Tools
• The @Test Annotation
• The Assert Class Utility
• Test Runners
• Lifecycle Methods
• Conclusion