Introduction to Java Technology

• Origins
• Info Sources
• Standard Edition (SE) Component APIs
• Applications vs Applets vs Servlets
• Platforms & Releases
• SDK vs JRE
• Language Characteristics
• Compiling & Interpreting JVM
• Architecture & Portability
• Multi-Threading
• GUI Facilities
• Development Environments
• Java Development Kit (SDK)
• Packages
• Commercial IDEs
• Packages
• CLASSPATH

Language Fundamentals, Part I

• Overview
• Source Files
• General Syntax/Structure
• Comments
• Identifiers
• Data Representation
• Primitive Types
• Extended Class Types and Methods
• Constants
• Operators and Expressions
• Console Stream IO, Formatting
• Flow Control, Conditions
• Date, String Classes
• switch/case

Language Fundamentals, Part II

• Looping Structures: while/for, Flow Control
• Arithmetic If
• final variables
• Assertions, Annotations
• Bit Operations

Using Classes and Objects

• Overview
• Classes vs Objects, Field/Method Access, Memory References
• Arrays Overview, Declaration/Instantiation,Initialization/Access, Multiple Dimensions
• Command Line Argument Processing
• Wrapper Classes, Conversions, Boxing
• Legacy Vector, ArrayLists, Iterative (foreach) Loop, Irregular 2D Arrays
• StringTokenizer/split

Writing Methods and Exceptions

• Overview
• Method Functions, Signatures, Parameters/Return Types, Invocation
• Variable Scope, Reference Parms, Overloading
• Exception Handling, throwing/catching, Checked vs Unchecked Exceptions
• try/catch/finally/throw Syntax
• Static Fields/Methods

Classes and Objects

• Overview, Abstraction, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism
• Declaring Class Field/Method Members
• Member Access/Assignment
• Object Constructor, this()
• Encapsulation, private/public/protected/package, get/set Methods
• Comparing/Assigning Objects, equals(), clone()
• Static Fields and Methods
• SubClassing and Inheritance, Constructors/super(), Overriding Members, Access Control, Virtual Binding, Object Class
• Polymorphism, Casting, Runtime Type (instanceof)
• Abstract Classes, Final Classes/Methods, Interfaces, Inner and Anonymous Classes, Packages

File I/O Classes

• Overview, Typical Classes, Hierarchy, Exception Handling
• File Object, Directory Info Methods
• Character Streams, BufferedReader/Writer Classes, Methods, Delimited Files
• Byte Streams, FileInput/OutputStream Classes, Methods
• Binary Data Streams, DataInput/OutputStream Classes, DataTypes, Methods
• Object Serialization, ObjectInput/OutputStream Classes
• URL Streams, File Conversions

Databases and JDBC

• Overview, Packages, Coding Essentials, Drivers, Connections, Statements and ResultSets
• Making Connections, Driver Types, Loading Drivers, Connection String URLs
• Statements and ResultSets, Executing Queries/Updates, Accessing Rows/Columns, Handling Nulls, Exceptions
• PreparedStatement and Efficiencies
• Stored Procedures, CallableStatement; Advanced ResultSets, Scrollable Cursors, Updatable Rows
• Transactions, commit/rollback
• ResultSet and Database Metadata

Collections, Generics and Enums

• Legacy Collections, Vector, Hashtable
• Collection Framework, Interfaces, Implementations, Algorithms
• Interfaces, Set, List, Queue, Iterator; Implementations, Array/LinkedList, Hash/TreeSet, Hash/TreeMap
• Iterators
• Collections Class Utilities, Comparable Interface
• Generics, Type Safety, Custom Generic Classes
• Enums, Constrained Value Types
• Enum Usage and Builtin Methods
• Enum Constructors

JFC and Swing (optional module)

• AWT vs Swing
• Architecture, Containers, Components, LayoutManagers Program Structure and Coding
• Containers, JFrame/Dialog/Window, Size/Position, Color/Font, Window Events
• JComponents, Buttons, Labels, Text, Check/Radio, List/Combo
• Layout Managers, Flow, Grid, Border, null, Box
• Dialog Factories, OptionPane, FileChooser
• Menus
• Overview Event Delegation Model, Sources, Objects and Listeners
• Program Structure and Coding, Implementing Interfaces, Inner Classes, Anonymous Adapters

Using Java Threads (optional module)

• Overview, Process vs Thread
• Object Threading Model, Thread Class, Data, run() code
• Creating Threads, Runnable Interface vs Extending Thread Class
• Thread States, New, Runnable, Blocked, Dead
• Thread Class Methods, start/stop, suspend/resume, yield, sleep
• Thread Priority and Scheduling, Daemons, Groups
• Synchronization and Thread Safe Coding, Locks
• Producer/Consumer Model, wait/notify Processing
• SE5 Concurrency Package, Executors, ThreadPools, Scheduling, Callables

Java Networking and Sockets (optional module)

• Overview, Network Stack and Protocols, IP/TCP/UDP/Appl, Services
• Package Classes and Exceptions
• INET Address Translations
• URL and URLConnections, HTTP Header Info, Downloading FileData
• Socket Programming, Client vs Server Coding, Threading
• Datagram Sockets and UDP
• CGI-like GET/POST Processing

Java EE Overview (optional module)

• Overview, Definitions, MVC Design Pattern, Server Products
• Platform Servers, Containers, Client Technologies
• API Services, Servlet, JSP, EJB, JNDI, JDBC, JTA, JMS, JAXP, JCA, JAAS
• WebApps Processing Cycle
• Deployment Objects, JAR/WAR/EAR
• Server Component Directory Structure, XML Descriptors
• Development Roles