Advanced Java Training

A First Look

A Simple Java Class

Java’s “Hello World” Program

Java Basics

Language and Platform Features

Program Life Cycle

The Java SE Development Kit (JDK)

Class and Object Basics

The Object Model and Object-Oriented Programming

Classes, References, and Instantiation

Adding Data to a Class Definition

Adding Methods (Behavior)

More on Classes and Objects

Accessing data, the “this” variable

Encapsulation and Access Control, public and private Access

Constructors and Initialization

static Members of a Class

Scopes, Blocks, References to Objects

Flow of Control[briefly due to attendee experience]

Branching: if, if-else, switch

Iteration: while, do-while, for, break, continue

Strings and Arrays

String, StringBuffer, StringBuilder

Arrays, Primitive Arrays, Arrays of Reference Types

varargs

Packages

Package Overview – Using Packages to Organize Code

import statements

Creating Packages, package Statement, Required Directory Structure

Finding Classes, Packages and Classpath

Composition and Inheritance

Using Composition to Deal With Complexity

Composition/HAS-A, Delegation

Using Inheritance and Polymorphism to share commonality

IS-A, extends, Inheriting Features, Overriding Methods, Using Polymorphism

Class Object

Abstract Classes

Interfaces

Using Interfaces to Define Types

Interfaces and Abstract Classes

Exceptions

Exceptions and the Exception Hierarchy

try and catch

Handling Exceptions

Program Flow with Exceptions

finally

JDBC

JDBC basics

JDBC Architecture

Using JDBC drivers & DriverManager

Class Connection and connecting to a database

Class Statement and executing SQL statements

Other statement types

Driver types

Java Collections and Generics

The Collections Framework and its API

Collections and Java Generics

Collection, Set, List, Map, Iterator

Autoboxing

Collections of Object (non-generic)

Using ArrayList, HashSet, and HashMap

for-each Loop

Processing Items With an Iterator

More About Generics

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