Java Programming for Developers

O.O developers moving to Java

Practical experience in any object-oriented programming language (e.g. C++)

 Introduction to Java

• Java History
• Language features

The Java Environment

• Java Virtual Machine
• First Java Program
• Java compiler
• Garbage collection
• Installation and distribution

Java Syntax

• Comments
• Variables
• Primitive types
• Operations
• Flow control
• Strings
• Arrays

Java Class Definition

• Methods
• Constructors
• Encapsulation
• static and final variables
• Javadoc
• Objects references
• The this keyword

Packages, Jar files, Classpath

• Packages
• The import statement
• Class loading and CLASSPATH
• Package-friendly access
• JAR files

Inheritance and Polymorphism

• Inheritance in Java
• The super keyword
• Single inheritance
• protected access
• Implementing polymorphism

Abstract classes & Interfaces

• Abstract classes
• Interfaces
• Simulating multiple inheritance

Advanced Class issues

• Final members and methods
• The Object class
• Inner classes

Error Handling

• The Throwable class
• Checked and unchecked exceptions
• Multiple catch blocks
• Custom exceptions
• finally clause
• Assertions

Strings

• String, StringBuffer, StringBuiler
• Wrapper classes
• StringTokenizer

Data structures

• Java data structures
• Iterators
• JDK1.1 data structures
• Generics

Multi Threading

• Java Thread API
• The Runnable interface
• Threads lifecycle
• Synchronization
• Wait/notify

Java I/O

• Streams and Filters
• Serialization
• Readers and Writers
• Working with files
• Standard input/output/error

Networking

• TCP communication
• Sockets and ServerSockets
• Simple client-server example

JDBC

• JDBC working model
• JDBC drivers
• Statements
• Transactions
• Prepared statements
• Callable statements