Java Programming

This book is an introduction to programming in Oracle’s Java™ programming language, a widely used programming language and software platform. This book serves as a comprehensive guide, complete with a series of tutorials to help users better understand the many ways one can program in Java. In its entirety, this book is meant to be both an introductory guide and a useful reference on Java and related technologies. As is the nature of this book, the content within the book is continuously being updated and revised. With every chapter within this book, the complexity of the context increases, building up on lessons learnt in the previous chapters. Beginners should therefore start from the beginning and proceed in a sequence throughout the material of the book.

Other special purpose books on Java, such as Java Enterprise Edition programming, Java Persistence, or Java Swing programming, with more details, would complement this book nicely.

Contents

Preface

• Introduction
• About this book
  • Installing the Java platform
• History of Java
• The Java platform
  • Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
  • Java Development Kit (JDK)
  • Similar concepts

Getting started

• Understanding systems
• The process of abstraction
  • Thinking in objects
  • Understanding class definitions and types
  • Expanding your class definitions
  • Adding behavior to objects
• The process of encapsulation
  • Using access modifiers
• Exercise 1: Writing your first Java program
  • Analysis of your first Java program

Language fundamentals

• Variables
  • Kinds of variables
  • Variable declaration
  • Assignment operation
  • Understanding data types
  • Whole numbers and floating point numbers
  • Identifiers
    • Naming conventions for dentifiers
  • Literals
• Arrays
• Basic arithmetic
  • Mathematical functions
  • Large numbers
  • Random numbers
• Flow control
• Methods
• Statements
• Types
• String
• Classes, objects and data types
• Syntax
• Keywords
• Packages
• Nested classes
• Access modifiers
• Data and variables
• Generics
• Java security

Classes and objects

• Defining classes
• Creating objects
• Interfaces
• Using static members
• Destroying objects
• Overloading methods and constructors
• Class loading

Collections

• Introduction
• Arrays
• Collection Classes
  • Collections and maps
  • Sets, lists and queues
  • Thread Safe Collections
• Comparing Objects

Exceptions

• Throwing and catching exceptions
  • Application exceptions
  • Runtime exceptions
  • NullPointerException
  • Main Exception classes
• Stack trace
• Checked exceptions
• Unchecked exceptions
• Preventing NullPointerException
• Chained exceptions(Nesting Exceptions)

Designing user interfaces

• Basic I/O
• Event handling
• Graphics
• Applets

Swing programming

• First Example: Frames and Labels
• Events and Buttons
• A Responsive Application
• Layouts
• Building a calculator

Advanced topics

• Byte code
• Concurrent programming
• Networking
• Database programming
• Reflection
• JavaBeans
• Design patterns
• Libraries, extensions and frameworks
• 3D programming
• Threads
• Remote Method Invocation (RMI) and Internet Inter-Orb Protocol (IIOP)
• Profiling
• Monitoring

Associated reading references

• Overview of the Java programming language
• Compiling programs
• Running programs
• Anatomy of a Java program
• Java IDEs

Appendices

• Links
• Glossary
• Index

Related books

• Java Persistence

See also

• Java platform
• Java API
• Java virtual machine
• GNU compiler collection - gcc (includes a Java to machine language compiler)
• Comparison of Java and C++.
• Comparison of C# and Java
• Jini™ – building service oriented architectures in Java
• Eclipse IDE – Eclipse website
• NetBeans — (IDE, Platform) Official site
• Java Examples – Javawiki (in Portuguese).
• Java Programming — Java Programming