Java 2 Basics

This is concise guide to the Java 2 Programming Language. Every feature of the language is compulsively tested with illustrative examples. Although the table of contents resembles the structure of the Sybex's book, each topic is addressed differently.

Author

Ernesto Garbarino

Last Update

09-Jul-2003

Table of Contents:

1. Language Fundamentals

   • Source Files
   • Keywords and Identifiers
   • Primitive Data Types
   • Literals
   • Arrays
   • Class Fundamentals
   • Argument Passing
   • Garbage Collection
   • Puzzling Issues
   
   

2. Operators

   • Table of Operators in Descending Order of Precedence
   • The Unary Operators
   • The Arithmetic Operators
   • The Shift Operators: <<, >> and >>>
   • The Comparison Operators
   • The Bitwise Operators: &, ^, and |
   • The Short-Circuit Logical Operators
   • The Ternary or Conditional Operator: ?:
   • Puzzling Issues
   
   

3. Control Flow Statements

   • The Loop Constructs
   • The break and continue Statements
   • The Selection Statements
   
   

4. Objects

   • Overloading
   • Overriding
   • Constructors and Subclassing
   • Overriding
   • Inner Classes
   • Anonymous Classes
   
   

5. Exceptions

   • Using try{} and catch() {}
   • Using finally
   • Declaring your own Exceptions
   • Categories of Exceptions
   • Exceptions and Methods
   • Exceptions and Overriding
   
   

6. Modifiers

   • The Access Modifiers
   • Legal overridden method access
   • Special Modifiers
   
   

7. Converting and Casting

   • Primitives
   • Primitives and Casting
   • Object Reference Conversion
   • Object Reference Casting
   
   

8. Threads

   • Thread States
   • Thread Priorities and Yielding
   
   

9. The java.lang and java.util Packages

   • The Object Class
   • The Math Class
   • Methods of the Math Class
   • The Wrapper Classes
   • Strings
   • Most useful String methods
   • The StringBuffer Class
   • Most useful StringBuffer methods
   • The Collections API
   • Collection Implementations in the API
   
   

10. Input and Output

    • Character Encodings
    • Main Classes
    • The File Class
    • The RandomAccessFile Class
    • Low-level Streams
    • High-Level Filter Streams
    • Readers and Writers
    • Object Streams and Serialization
    • Character Encodings
    
    

11. AWT - Layout Managers

    • The Flow Layout Manager
    • The Grid Layout Manager
    • The Border Layout Manager
    • The Card Layout Manager
    • The Grid Bag Layout Manager
    
    

12. AWT - Components

    • Components in General
    • Visual Components
    • The Container Components
    • The Menu Components
    
    

13. AWT - Painting

    • Drawing and Filling
    • Clipping
    • Painting a Contained Component
    • Animation / Double Buffering example
    
    

14. AWT - Events

    • Delegation of Event Handling to Listener Objects
    • Explicit Event Handling
    • Adapters
    • Action Commands
    
    

Bibliography:

• Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide 2nd edition by Simon Roberts, Philip Heller and Michael Ernest. ISBN: 0-7821-2825-4 (Sep 2000 Sybex)
• The Java Tutorial Third Edition by Mary Campione, Kathy Walrath and Alison Huml. ISBN: 0201703939 (Dec 2000 Addison Wesley)
• Sun's Java API 1.3. (Sun Microsystems)