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The Java(TM) Programming Language

by: Arnold, Ken; Gosling, James; Holmes, David

9780201704334

The Java(TM) Programming Language

by: Arnold, Ken; Gosling, James; Holmes, David

ISBN 13:
9780201704334
ISBN 10:
0201704331
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
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Summary

Restructured to deliver in-depth coverage of Java's critical new features, this guide contains code examples to help developers make the most of new Java features. It offers a creator's eye view of the rationale behind Java's design, and its latest enhancements, all designed to help developers make the most of Java's power, portability, and flexibility.

A Quick Tour

1

(34)

Getting Started

1

(2)

Variables

3

(3)

Comments in Code

6

(1)

Named Constants

6

(2)

Unicode Characters

8

(1)

Flow of Control

9

(2)

Classes and Objects

11

(3)

Creating Objects

12

(1)

Static or Class Fields

13

(1)

The Garbage Collector

14

(1)

Methods and Parameters

14

(3)

Invoking a Method

15

(1)

The this Reference

16

(1)

Static or Class Methods

17

(1)

Arrays

17

(3)

String Objects

20

(2)

Extending a Class

22

(3)

Invoking Methods from the Superclass

23

(1)

The Object Class

24

(1)

Type Casting

25

(1)

Interfaces

25

(2)

Exceptions

27

(3)

Packages

30

(2)

The Java Platform

32

(1)

Other Topics Briefly Noted

33

(2)

Classes and Objects

35

(30)

A Simple Class

36

(2)

Class Members

36

(1)

Class Modifiers

37

(1)

Fields

38

(3)

Field Initialization

38

(1)

Static Fields

39

(1)

final Fields

40

(1)

Access Control

41

(1)

Creating Objects

42

(1)

Construction and Initialization

43

(7)

Constructors

44

(4)

Initialization Blocks

48

(1)

Static Initialization

49

(1)

Methods

50

(9)

Static Methods

51

(1)

Method Invocations

51

(2)

Method Execution and Return

53

(1)

Parameter Values

54

(3)

Using Methods to Control Access

57

(2)

this

59

(2)

Overloading Methods

61

(1)

The main Method

62

(1)

Native Methods

63

(2)

Extending Classes

65

(40)

An Extended Class

66

(3)

Constructors in Extended Classes

69

(4)

Constructor Order Dependencies

71

(2)

Inheriting and Redefining Members

73

(6)

Overriding

73

(1)

Hiding Fields

74

(1)

Accessing Inherited Members

75

(2)

Accessibility and Overriding

77

(1)

Hiding Static Members

77

(1)

The super Keyword

78

(1)

Type Compatibility and Conversion

79

(2)

Compatibility

79

(1)

Explicit Type Casting

80

(1)

Testing for Type

80

(1)

What protected Really Means

81

(3)

Marking Methods and Classes final

84

(1)

Abstract Classes and Methods

85

(2)

The Object Class

87

(2)

Cloning Objects

89

(6)

Strategies for Cloning

89

(2)

Correct Cloning

91

(3)

Shallow versus Deep Cloning

94

(1)

Extending Classes: How and When

95

(1)

Designing a Class to Be Extended

96

(6)

Designing an Extensible Framework

97

(5)

Single Inheritance versus Multiple Inheritance

102

(3)

Interfaces

105

(16)

A Simple Interface Example

106

(2)

Interface Declarations

108

(2)

Interface Constants

109

(1)

Interface Methods

109

(1)

Interface Modifiers

110

(1)

Extending Interfaces

110

(3)

Inheriting and Hiding Constants

111

(1)

Inheriting, Overriding, and Overloading Methods

112

(1)

Working with Interfaces

113

(4)

Implementing Interfaces

114

(2)

Using an Implementation

116

(1)

Marker Interfaces

117

(1)

When to Use Interfaces

118

(3)

Nested Classes and Interfaces

121

(16)

Static Nested Types

121

(2)

Static Nested Classes

122

(1)

Nested Interfaces

123

(1)

Inner Classes

123

(6)

Accessing Enclosing Objects

125

(1)

Extending Inner Classes

126

(1)

Inheritance, Scoping, and Hiding

127

(2)

Local Inner Classes

129

(2)

Anonymous Inner Classes

131

(1)

Inheriting Nested Types

132

(2)

Nesting in Interfaces

134

(2)

Modifiable Variables in Interfaces

135

(1)

Implementation of Nested Types

136

(1)

Tokens, Operators, and Expressions

137

(42)

Lexical Elements

137

(4)

Character Set

138

(1)

Comments

138

(1)

Tokens

139

(1)

Identifiers

140

(1)

Keywords

141

(1)

Types and Literals

141

(3)

Reference Literals

142

(1)

Boolean Literals

142

(1)

Character Literals

142

(1)

Integer Literals

143

(1)

Floating-Point Literals

143

(1)

String Literals

144

(1)

Class Literals

144

(1)

Variables

144

(4)

Field and Local Variable Declarations

145

(1)

Parameter Variables

146

(1)

final Variables

146

(2)

Array Variables

148

(4)

Array Modifiers

149

(1)

Arrays of Arrays

149

(1)

Array Initialization

150

(1)

Arrays and Types

151

(1)

The Meanings of Names

152

(4)

Arithmetic Operations

156

(3)

Integer Arithmetic

156

(1)

Floating-Point Arithmetic

156

(2)

Strict and non-Strict Floating-Point Arithmetic

158

(1)

General Operators

159

(9)

Increment and Decrement Operators

159

(1)

Relational and Equality Operators

160

(1)

Logical Operators

161

(1)

instanceof

162

(1)

Bit Manipulation Operators

163

(1)

The Conditional Operator?:

164

(1)

Assignment Operators

165

(2)

String Concatenation Operator

167

(1)

new

167

(1)

Expressions

168

(5)

Order of Evaluation

168

(1)

Expression Type

169

(1)

Implicit Type Conversions

169

(2)

Explicit Type Casts

171

(1)

String Conversions

172

(1)

Member Access

173

(3)

Finding the Right Method

173

(3)

Operator Precedence and Associativity

176

(3)

Control Flow

179

(16)

Statements and Blocks

179

(1)

if-else

180

(2)

switch

182

(3)

while and do-while

185

(1)

for

186

(3)

Labels

189

(1)

break

189

(3)

continue

192

(1)

return

193

(1)

What, No goto?

193

(2)

Exceptions

195

(14)

Creating Exception Types

196

(1)

throw

197

(2)

Transfer of Control

198

(1)

Asynchronous Exceptions

198

(1)

The throws Clause

199

(3)

throws Clauses and Method Overriding

200

(1)

throws Clauses and Native Methods

201

(1)

try, catch, and finally

202

(4)

finally

204

(2)

When to Use Exceptions

206

(3)

Strings

209

(18)

Basic String Operations

209

(2)

String Comparisons

211

(4)

String Literal Equivalence

214

(1)

Utility Methods

215

(1)

Making Related Strings

215

(2)

String Conversions

217

(1)

Strings and char Arrays

218

(2)

Strings and byte Arrays

220

(2)

Character Encodings

221

(1)

The StringBuffer Class

222

(5)

Modifying the Buffer

223

(2)

Getting Data Out

225

(1)

Capacity Management

226

(1)

Threads

227

(44)

Creating Threads

229

(2)

Using Runnable

231

(4)

Synchronization

235

(9)

synchronized Methods

235

(3)

Static Synchronized Methods

238

(1)

synchronized Statements

238

(4)

Synchronization Designs

242

(2)

wait, notifyAll, and notify

244

(2)

Details of Waiting and Notification

246

(2)

Thread Scheduling

248

(4)

Voluntary Rescheduling

249

(3)

Deadlocks

252

(2)

Ending Thread Execution

254

(5)

Cancelling a Thread

255

(2)

Waiting for a Thread to Complete

257

(2)

Ending Application Execution

259

(1)

volatile

260

(1)

Thread Management, Security and ThreadGroup

261

(5)

Threads and Exceptions

266

(1)

Don't stop

266

(1)

ThreadLocal Variables

267

(2)

Debugging Threads

269

(2)

Programming with Types

271

(42)

Wrapper Classes

272

(10)

Void

274

(1)

Boolean

274

(1)

Character

275

(4)

Number

279

(1)

The Integer Wrappers

279

(2)

The Floating-Point Wrapper Classes

281

(1)

Reflection

282

(22)

The Class class

283

(4)

Naming Classes

287

(1)

Examining Class Members

288

(4)

The Modifier Class

292

(1)

The Field Class

292

(2)

The Method Class

294

(2)

Creating New Objects and the Constructor Class

296

(3)

Access Checking and AccessibleObject

299

(1)

Arrays

299

(2)

Packages

301

(1)

The Proxy Class

301

(3)

Loading Classes

304

(9)

The ClassLoader Class

307

(2)

Preparing a Class for use

309

(1)

Loading Related Resources

310

(3)

Garbage Collection and Memory

313

(16)

Garbage Collection

313

(1)

A Simple Model

314

(2)

Finalization

316

(2)

Resurrecting Objects during finalize

318

(1)

Interacting with the Garbage Collector

318

(2)

Reachability States and Reference Objects

320

(9)

The Reference Class

321

(1)

Strengths of Reference and Reachability

321

(4)

Reference Queues

325

(4)

Packages

329

(12)

Package Naming

330

(1)

Type Imports

331

(1)

Package Access

332

(4)

Accessibility and Overriding Methods

333

(3)

Package Contents

336

(1)

Package Objects and Specifications

337

(4)

Documentation Comments

341

(14)

The Anatomy of a Doc Comment

342

(1)

Tags

343

(4)

@see

343

(1)

{@link}

344

(1)

@param

345

(1)

@return

345

(1)

@throws and @exception

345

(1)

@deprecated

345

(1)

@author

346

(1)

@version

346

(1)

@since

346

(1)

{@docRoot}

347

(1)

An Example

347

(5)

External Conventions

352

(1)

Overview and Package Documentation

352

(1)

The doc-files Directory

353

(1)

Notes on Usage

353

(2)

The I/O Package

355

(66)

Byte Streams

357

(5)

InputStream

357

(3)

OutputStream

360

(2)

Character Streams

362

(5)

Reader

363

(3)

Writer

366

(1)

Character Streams and the Standard Streams

367

(1)

InputStreamReader and OutputStreamWriter

367

(2)

A Quick Tour of The Stream Classes

369

(22)

Synchronization and Concurrency

370

(1)

Filter Streams

371

(3)

Buffered Streams

374

(1)

Piped Streams

375

(2)

ByteArray Byte Streams

377

(1)

CharArray Character Streams

378

(1)

String Character Streams

379

(1)

Print Streams

380

(1)

LineNumber Reader

381

(2)

SequenceInputStream

383

(1)

Pushback Streams

384

(2)

StreamTokenizer

386

(5)

The Data Byte Streams

391

(4)

DataInput and DataOutput

392

(1)

The Data Stream Classes

393

(2)

Working with Files

395

(10)

File Streams and FileDescriptor

395

(1)

RandomAccessFile

396

(2)

The File Class

398

(6)

FilenameFilter and FileFilter

404

(1)

Object Serialization

405

(13)

The Object Byte Streams

405

(1)

Making Your Classes Serializable

406

(2)

Serialization and Deserialization Order

408

(1)

Customized Serialization

409

(4)

Object Versioning

413

(1)

Serialized Fields

414

(2)

The Externalizable Interface

416

(1)

Documentation Comment Tags

417

(1)

The IOException Classes

418

(3)

Collections

421

(42)

Collections

421

(4)

Exception Conventions

424

(1)

Iteration

425

(2)

Ordering using Comparable and Comparator

427

(1)

The Collection Interface

428

(2)

Set and SortedSet

430

(3)

HashSet

432

(1)

TreeSet

432

(1)

List

433

(4)

ArrayList

435

(1)

LinkedList

436

(1)

Map and SortedMap

437

(5)

HashMap

440

(1)

TreeMap

441

(1)

WeakHashMap

442

(1)

Wrapped Collections and the Collections Class

442

(6)

The Synchronization Wrappers

443

(1)

The Unmodifiable Wrappers

444

(1)

The Collections Utilities

445

(3)

The Arrays Utility Class

448

(1)

Writing Iterator Implementations

448

(3)

Writing Collection Implementations

451

(5)

The Legacy Collection Types

456

(4)

Enumeration

457

(1)

Vector

457

(2)

Stack

459

(1)

Dictionary

459

(1)

Hashtable

460

(1)

Properties

460

(3)

Miscellaneous Utilities

463

(16)

BitSet

464

(2)

Observer/Observable

466

(4)

Random

470

(2)

StringTokenizer

472

(1)

Timer and TimerTask

473

(4)

Math and StrictMath

477

(2)

System Programming

479

(22)

The System Class

480

(4)

Standard I/O Streams

480

(1)

System Properties

481

(2)

Utility Methods

483

(1)

Creating Processes

484

(4)

The Process Class

485

(2)

Process Environments

487

(1)

Portability

488

(1)

Shutdown

488

(4)

Shutdown Hooks

489

(1)

The Shutdown Sequence

490

(1)

Shutdown Strategies

491

(1)

The Rest of the Runtime

492

(1)

Loading Native Code

492

(1)

Debugging

493

(1)

Security

493

(8)

The SecurityManager Class

494

(2)

Permissions

496

(1)

Security Policies

497

(1)

Access Controllers and Privileged Execution

497

(4)

Internationalization and Localization

501

(26)

Locale

502

(2)

Resource Bundles

504

(5)

ListResourceBundle

507

(1)

PropertyResourceBundle

508

(1)

Subclassing ResourceBundle

509

(1)

Time, Dates, and Calendars

509

(8)

Calendars

510

(4)

Time Zones

514

(1)

GregorianCalendar and SimpleTimeZone

515

(2)

Formatting and Parsing Dates and Times

517

(3)

Internationalization and Localization for Text

520

(7)

Collation

520

(2)

Formatting and Parsing

522

(2)

Text Boundaries

524

(3)

Standard Packages

527

(24)

java.awt---The Abstract Window Toolkit

529

(3)

java.applet---Applets

532

(1)

java.beans---Components

533

(1)

java.math---Mathematics

534

(1)

java.net---The Network

535

(3)

java.rmi---Remote Method Invocation

538

(5)

java.security---Security Tools

543

(1)

java.sql---Relational Database Access

544

(1)

Utility Subpackages

544

(2)

Archive Files---java.util.jar

544

(1)

ZIP Files---java.util.zip

545

(1)

javax.*---Standard Extensions

546

(1)

javax.accessibility---Accessibility for GUIs

546

(1)

javax.naming---Directory and Naming Services

547

(1)

javax.sound---Sound Manipulation

548

(1)

javax.swing---Swing GUI Components

549

(1)

org.omg.CORBA---CORBA APIs

549

(2)

A Runtime Exceptions

551

(6)

A.1 RuntimeException Classes

552

(2)

A.2 Error Classes

554

(3)

B Useful Tables

557

(6)

Table 1: Keywords

557

(1)

Table 2: Operator Precedence

558

(1)

Table 3: Unicode Digits

558

(1)

Table 4: Unicode Letters and Digits

559

(1)

Table 5: Special Characters Using \

560

(1)

Table 6: Documentation Comment Tags

560

(1)

Table 7: Unicode Character Blocks

561

(2)

Further Reading

563

(6)

Index

569

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