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The Java Tutorial A Short Course on the Basics

by: Zakhour, Sharon Biocca; Hommel, Scott; Royal, Jacob; Rabinovitch, Isaac; Risser, Tom; Hoeber, Mark

The Java Tutorial A Short Course on the Basics

by: Zakhour, Sharon Biocca; Hommel, Scott; Royal, Jacob; Rabinovitch, Isaac; Risser, Tom; Hoeber, Mark

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9780321334206
ISBN 10:
0321334205
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 09/29/2006
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
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This hands-on introduction to the Java programming language has been updated for J2SE 5.0 and written by the members of the Java Software team. It uses an interactive approach to help new programmers learn by example.

Foreword

xix

Preface

xxi

Getting Started

(32)

The Java Technology Phenomenon

(5)

About the Java Technology

(3)

What Can Java Technology Do?

(1)

How Will Java Technology Change My Life?

(1)

The ``Hello World!'' Application

(18)

``Hello World!'' for the NetBeans IDE

(8)

``Hello World!'' for Microsoft Windows

(5)

``Hello World!'' for Solaris OS and Linux

(5)

A Closer Look at the ``Hello World!'' Application

(3)

Source Code Comments

(1)

The HelloWorldApp Class Definition

(1)

The main Method

(2)

Common Problems (and Their Solutions)

(3)

Compiler Problems

(2)

Runtime Problems

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Getting Started

(3)

Object-Oriented Programming Concepts

(10)

What Is an Object?

(2)

What Is a Class?

(2)

What Is Inheritance?

(1)

What Is an Interface?

(1)

What Is a Package?

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Object-Oriented Programming Concepts

(3)

Language Basics

(42)

Variables

(12)

Naming

(1)

Primitive Data Types

(4)

Arrays

(4)

Summary of Variables

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Variables

(1)

Operators

(11)

Assignment, Arithmetic, and Unary Operators

(3)

Equality, Relational, and Conditional Operators

(3)

Bitwise and Bit Shift Operators

(1)

Summary of Operators

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Operators

(2)

Expressions, Statements, and Blocks

(3)

Expressions

(1)

Statements

(1)

Blocks

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Expressions, Statements, and Blocks

(1)

Control Flow Statements

(16)

The if-then and if-then-else Statements

(2)

The switch Statement

(3)

The while and do-while Statements

(1)

The for Statement

(2)

Branching Statements

(5)

Summary of Control Flow Statements

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Control Flow Statements

(3)

Classes and Objects

(54)

Classes

(12)

Declaring Classes

(1)

Declaring Member Variables

(2)

Defining Methods

(2)

Providing Constructors for Your Classes

(1)

Passing Information to a Method or a Constructor

(4)

Objects

(9)

Creating Objects

(4)

Using Objects

103

(3)

More on Classes

106

(16)

Returning a Value from a Method

106

(3)

Using the this Keyword

109

(1)

Controlling Access to Members of a Class

110

(2)

Understanding Instance and Class Members

112

(5)

Initializing Fields

117

(1)

Summary of Creating and Using Classes and Objects

118

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Classes

119

(2)

Questions and Exercises: Objects

121

(1)

Nested Classes

122

(6)

Why Use Nested Classes?

122

(1)

Static Nested Classes

123

(1)

Inner Classes

123

(1)

Inner Class Example

124

(3)

Summary of Nested Classes

127

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Nested Classes

128

(1)

Enum Types

128

(4)

Questions and Exercises: Enum Types

132

(1)

Annotations

132

(7)

Documentation

133

(1)

Annotations Used by the Compiler

134

(2)

Annotation Processing

136

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Annotations

136

(3)

Interfaces and Inheritance

139

(28)

Interfaces

139

(8)

Interfaces in Java

140

(1)

Interfaces as APIs

141

(1)

Interfaces and Multiple Inheritance

141

(1)

Defining an Interface

142

(1)

Implementing an Interface

143

(2)

Using an Interface as a Type

145

(1)

Rewriting Interfaces

146

(1)

Summary of Interfaces

146

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Interfaces

147

(1)

Inheritance

147

(20)

The Java Platform Class Hierarchy

148

(1)

An Example of Inheritance

148

(2)

What You Can Do in a Subclass

150

(1)

Private Members in a Superclass

151

(1)

Casting Objects

151

(1)

Overriding and Hiding Methods

152

(2)

Hiding Fields

154

(1)

Using the Keyword super

154

(2)

Object as a Superclass

156

(4)

Writing Final Classes and Methods

160

(1)

Abstract Methods and Classes

161

(3)

Summary of Inheritance

164

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Inheritance

164

(3)

Generics

167

(16)

Introduction

167

(2)

A Simple Box Class

168

(1)

Generic Types

169

(3)

Type Parameter Conventions

171

(1)

Generic Methods and Constructors

172

(1)

Bounded Type Parameters

173

(2)

Subtyping

175

(2)

Wildcards

177

(1)

Type Erasure

178

(1)

Summary of Generics

179

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Generics

180

(3)

Packages

183

(12)

Creating and Using Packages

183

(12)

Creating a Package

184

(2)

Naming a Package

186

(1)

Using Package Members

187

(4)

Managing Source and Class Files

191

(2)

Summary of Creating and Using Packages

193

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Creating and Using Packages

194

(1)

Numbers and Strings

195

(38)

Numbers

195

(15)

The Numbers Classes

195

(3)

Formatting Numeric Print Output

198

(5)

Beyond Basic Arithmetic

203

(5)

Summary of Numbers

208

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Numbers

209

(1)

Characters

210

(2)

Escape Sequences

212

(1)

Strings

212

(21)

Creating Strings

213

(1)

String Length

213

(1)

Concatenating Strings

214

(1)

Creating Format Strings

215

(1)

Converting Between Numbers and Strings

216

(2)

Manipulating Characters in a String

218

(6)

Comparing Strings and Portions of Strings

224

(2)

The StringBuilder Class

226

(4)

Summary of Characters and Strings

230

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Characters and Strings

231

(2)

Exceptions

233

(28)

What Is an Exception?

233

(2)

The Catch or Specify Requirement

235

(1)

The Three Kinds of Exceptions

235

(1)

Bypassing Catch or Specify

236

(1)

Catching and Handling Exceptions

236

(9)

The try Block

238

(1)

The catch Blocks

239

(1)

The finally Block

240

(1)

Putting It All Together

241

(4)

Specifying the Exceptions Thrown by a Method

245

(1)

How to Throw Exceptions

246

(6)

The throw Statement

247

(1)

Throwable Class and Its Subclasses

247

(1)

Error Class

248

(1)

Exception Class

248

(1)

Chained Exceptions

249

(1)

Creating Exception Classes

250

(2)

Unchecked Exceptions---The Controversy

252

(1)

Advantages of Exceptions

253

(5)

Advantage 1: Separating Error-Handling Code from ``Regular'' Code

253

(2)

Advantage 2: Propagating Errors Up the Call Stack

255

(2)

Advantage 3: Grouping and Differentiating Error Types

257

(1)

Summary

258

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Exceptions

259

(2)

Basic I/O

261

(32)

I/O Streams

261

(25)

Byte Streams

263

(2)

Character Streams

265

(4)

Buffered Streams

269

(1)

Scanning and Formatting

270

(6)

I/O from the Command Line

276

(3)

Data Streams

279

(3)

Object Streams

282

(4)

File I/O

286

(5)

File Objects

286

(3)

Random Access Files

289

(2)

The New I/O Packages

291

(1)

Summary

292

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Basic I/O

292

(1)

Collections

293

(76)

Introduction to Collections

293

(2)

What Is a Collections Framework?

294

(1)

Benefits of the Java Collections Framework

294

(1)

Interfaces

295

(47)

The Collection Interface

298

(3)

The Set Interface

301

(5)

The List Interface

306

(10)

The Queue Interface

316

(3)

The Map Interface

319

(9)

Object Ordering

328

(7)

The SortedSet Interface

335

(3)

The SortedMap Interface

338

(2)

Summary of Interfaces

340

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Interfaces

340

(2)

Implementations

342

(13)

Set Implementations

344

(2)

List Implementations

346

(1)

Map Implementations

347

(2)

Queue Implementations

349

(1)

Wrapper Implementations

350

(2)

Convenience Implementations

352

(2)

Summary of Implementations

354

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Implementations

355

(1)

Algorithms

355

(5)

Sorting

356

(2)

Shuffling

358

(1)

Routine Data Manipulation

359

(1)

Searching

359

(1)

Composition

360

(1)

Finding Extreme Values

360

(1)

Custom Collection Implementations

360

(4)

Reasons to Write an Implementation

360

(1)

How to Write a Custom Implementation

361

(3)

Interoperability

364

(5)

Compatibility

364

(2)

API Design

366

(3)

Concurrency

369

(36)

Processes and Threads

369

(2)

Processes

370

(1)

Threads

370

(1)

Thread Objects

371

(6)

Defining and Starting a Thread

371

(1)

Pausing Execution with sleep

372

(1)

Interrupts

373

(2)

Joins

375

(1)

The SimpleThreads Example

375

(2)

Synchronization

377

(7)

Thread Interference

377

(2)

Memory Consistency Errors

379

(1)

Synchronized Methods

380

(1)

Intrinsic Locks and Synchronization

381

(2)

Atomic Access

383

(1)

Liveness

384

(2)

Deadlock

384

(1)

Starvation and Livelock

385

(1)

Guarded Blocks

386

(5)

Immutable Objects

391

(4)

A Synchronized Class Example

391

(2)

A Strategy for Defining Immutable Objects

393

(2)

High-Level Concurrency Objects

395

(7)

Lock Objects

395

(2)

Executors

397

(3)

Concurrent Collections

400

(1)

Atomic Variables

401

(1)

For Further Reading

402

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Concurrency

403

(2)

Regular Expressions

405

(38)

Introduction

405

(1)

What Are Regular Expressions?

405

(1)

How Are Regular Expressions Represented in This Package?

406

(1)

Test Harness

406

(1)

String Literals

407

(2)

Metacharacters

408

(1)

Character Classes

409

(5)

Simple Classes

410

(4)

Predefined Character Classes

414

(2)

Quantifiers

416

(6)

Zero-Length Matches

417

(3)

Capturing Groups and Character Classes with Quantifiers

420

(1)

Differences among Greedy, Reluctant, and Possessive Quantifiers

421

(1)

Capturing Groups

422

(2)

Numbering

422

(1)

Backreferences

423

(1)

Boundary Matchers

424

(1)

Methods of the Pattern Class

425

(6)

Creating a Pattern with Flags

426

(1)

Embedded Flag Expressions

427

(1)

Using the matches(String, CharSequence) Method

428

(1)

Using the split(String) Method

428

(2)

Other Utility Methods

430

(1)

Pattern Method Equivalents in java.lang.String

430

(1)

Methods of the Matcher Class

431

(6)

Index Methods

431

(1)

Study Methods

431

(1)

Replacement Methods

432

(1)

Using the start and end Methods

432

(2)

Using the matches and lookingAt Methods

434

(1)

Using replaceFirst(String) and replaceAll(String)

434

(2)

The appendReplacement(StringBuffer, String) and appendTail(StringBuffer) Methods

436

(1)

Matcher Method Equivalents in java.lang.String

436

(1)

Methods of the PatternSyntaxException Class

437

(2)

Summary

439

(1)

Additional Resources

440

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Regular Expressions

440

(3)

The Platform Environment

443

(20)

Configuration Utilities

443

(9)

Properties

443

(5)

Command-Line Arguments

448

(1)

Environment Variables

449

(2)

Other Configuration Utilities

451

(1)

System Utilities

452

(5)

Command-Line I/O Objects

452

(1)

System Properties

452

(3)

The Security Manager

455

(2)

Miscellaneous Methods in System

457

(1)

Path and Classpath

457

(3)

Update the Path Variable(Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP)

458

(1)

Update the Path Variable (Solaris and Linux)

458

(2)

Checking the Classpath Variable (All Platforms)

460

(1)

Questions and Exercises: The Platform Environment

460

(3)

Swing

463

(24)

A Brief Introduction to the Swing Package

463

(7)

What Is Swing?

463

(3)

A Swing Demo

466

(4)

Swing Features

470

(15)

A Visual Guide to Swing Components

470

(6)

Pluggable Look and Feel

476

(4)

Drag and Drop and Data Transfer

480

(1)

Internationalization and Localization

480

(2)

Accessibility

482

(1)

Integrating with the Desktop

483

(1)

System Tray Icon Support

484

(1)

Questions: Graphical User Interfaces

485

(2)

Packaging Programs in JAR Files

487

(34)

Using JAR Files: The Basics

488

(12)

Creating a JAR File

490

(3)

Viewing the Contents of a JAR File

493

(2)

Extracting the Contents of a JAR File

495

(1)

Updating a JAR File

496

(2)

Running JAR-Packaged Software

498

(2)

Working with Manifest Files: The Basics

500

(7)

Understanding the Default Manifest

500

(1)

Modifying a Manifest File

501

(1)

Setting an Application's Entry Point

502

(1)

Adding Classes to the JAR File's Classpath

503

(1)

Setting Package Version Information

504

(2)

Sealing Packages Within a JAR File

506

(1)

Signing and Verifying JAR Files

507

(7)

Understanding Signing and Verification

508

(3)

Signing JAR Files

511

(2)

Verifying Signed JAR Files

513

(1)

Using JAR-Related APIs

514

(6)

An Example---The JarRunner Application

514

(1)

The JarClassLoader Class

515

(3)

The JarRunner Class

518

(2)

Questions: JAR Files

520

(1)

Java Web Start

521

(22)

Running Java Web Start Applications

522

(2)

Running a Java Web Start Application from a Browser

523

(1)

Running an Application from the Java Cache Viewer

523

(1)

Running a Java Web Start Application from the Desktop

524

(1)

Deploying Java Web Start Applications

524

(10)

Setting Up the Web Server

525

(1)

Creating the JNLP File

525

(8)

Placing the Application on the Web Server

533

(1)

Creating the Web Page

534

(1)

Developing Java Web Start Applications

534

(2)

Packaging the Application in JAR Files

534

(1)

Reading Resources in a JAR File

535

(1)

Untrusted Applications

535

(1)

The JNLP API

536

(2)

Java Web Start and Security

538

(1)

Java Web Start Security Basics

538

(1)

Signing JAR Files for Java Web Start Deployment

538

(1)

Security and JNLP Files

538

(1)

Dynamic Downloading of HTTPS Certificates

539

(1)

Common Java Web Start Problems

539

(1)

Questions and Exercises: Java Web Start

540

(3)

Applets

543

(60)

Getting Started with Applets

545

(14)

Extending Applet or JApplet

546

(1)

The Life Cycle of an Applet

547

(3)

Methods for Milestones

550

(2)

Methods for Drawing and Event Handling

552

(2)

Methods for Adding UI Components

554

(4)

What Applets Can and Can't Do

558

(1)

Taking Advantage of the Applet API

559

(19)

Finding and Loading Data Files

560

(1)

Displaying Short Status Strings

561

(1)

Displaying Documents in the Browser

562

(2)

Sending Messages to Other Applets

564

(4)

Playing Sounds

568

(2)

Defining and Using Applet Parameters

570

(4)

Using the APPLET Tag

574

(4)

Practical Considerations When Writing Applets

578

(15)

Security Restrictions

578

(3)

Creating a User Interface

581

(2)

Getting System Properties

583

(2)

Threads in Applets

585

(4)

Working with a Server-Side Application

589

(4)

Finishing an Applet

593

(1)

Before You Ship That Applet

593

(1)

The Perfectly Finished Applet

594

(1)

Deploying Applets

594

(6)

General Deployment Considerations

595

(1)

Using the applet Tag

595

(1)

Using the object Tag

596

(2)

Using the embed Tag

598

(1)

Deploying Applets in a Mixed-Browser Environment

598

(2)

Solving Common Applet Problems

600

(2)

Questions and Exercises: Java Applets

602

(1)

Appendix A Java Language Keywords

603

(2)

Appendix B Preparation for Java Programming Language Certification

605

(12)

Index

617

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