Java in a Nutshell: Flanagan, David: 9780596007737: Book: : eCampus.com

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Preface

xvii

Part I. Introducing Java

Introduction

(16)

What Is Java?

(3)

The Java Programming Language

(1)

The Java Virtual Machine

(1)

The Java Platform

(1)

Versions of Java

(1)

Key Benefits of Java

(3)

Write Once, Run Anywhere

(1)

Security

(1)

Network-Centric Programming

(1)

Dynamic, Extensible Programs

(1)

Internationalization

(1)

Performance

(1)

Programmer Efficiency and Time-to-Market

(1)

An Example Program

(10)

Compiling and Running the Program

(2)

Analyzing the Program

(6)

Exceptions

(2)

Java Syntax from the Ground Up

(81)

Java Programs from the Top Down

(1)

Lexical Structure

(3)

The Unicode Character Set

(1)

Case-Sensitivity and Whitespace

(1)

Comments

(1)

Reserved Words

(1)

Identifiers

(1)

Literals

(1)

Punctuation

(1)

Primitive Data Types

(7)

The boolean Type

(1)

The char Type

(2)

Strings

(1)

Integer Types

(1)

Floating-Point Types

(1)

Primitive Type Conversions

(2)

Expressions and Operators

(14)

Operator Summary

(4)

Arithmetic Operators

(1)

String Concatenation Operator

(1)

Increment and Decrement Operators

(1)

Comparison Operators

(1)

Boolean Operators

(2)

Bitwise and Shift Operators

(2)

Assignment Operators

(1)

The Conditional Operator

(1)

The instanceof Operator

(1)

Special Operators

(2)

Statements

(22)

Expression Statements

(1)

Compound Statements

(1)

The Empty Statement

(1)

Labeled Statements

(1)

Local Variable Declaration Statements

(1)

The if/else Statement

(2)

The switch Statement

(2)

The while Statement

(1)

The do Statement

(1)

The for Statement

(1)

The for/in Statement

(4)

The break Statement

(1)

The continue Statement

(1)

The return Statement

(1)

The synchronized Statement

(1)

The throw Statement

(2)

The try/catch/finally Statement

(2)

The assert Statement

(4)

Methods

(7)

Defining Methods

(2)

Method Modifiers

(2)

Declaring Checked Exceptions

(1)

Variable-Length Argument Lists

(1)

Covariant Return Types

(1)

Classes and Objects Introduced

(3)

Defining a Class

(1)

Creating an Object

(1)

Using an Object

(1)

Object Literals

(1)

Arrays

(7)

Array Types

(1)

Creating and Initializing Arrays

(1)

Using Arrays

(3)

Multidimensional Arrays

(1)

Reference Types

(8)

Reference vs. Primitive Types

(1)

Copying Objects

(2)

Comparing Objects

(1)

Terminology: Pass by Value

(1)

Memory Allocation and Garbage Collection

(1)

Reference Type Conversions

(2)

Boxing and Unboxing Conversions

(1)

Packages and the Java Namespace

(4)

Package Declaration

(1)

Globally Unique Package Names

(1)

Importing Types

(2)

Importing Static Members

(1)

Java File Structure

(1)

Defining and Running Java Programs

(1)

Differences Between C and Java

(3)

Object-Oriented Programming in Java

(61)

Class Definition Syntax

(1)

Fields and Methods

100

(6)

Field Declaration Syntax

101

(1)

Class Fields

102

(1)

Class Methods

102

(1)

Instance Fields

103

(1)

Instance Methods

104

(2)

Case Study: System.out.println()

106

(1)

Creating and Initializing Objects

106

(5)

Defining a Constructor

107

(1)

Defining Multiple Constructors

108

(1)

Invoking One Constructor from Another

108

(1)

Field Defaults and Initializers

109

(2)

Destroying and Finalizing Objects

111

(3)

Garbage Collection

111

(1)

Memory Leaks in Java

112

(1)

Object Finalization

113

(1)

Subclasses and Inheritance

114

(9)

Extending a Class

114

(2)

Superclasses, Object, and the Class Hierarchy

116

(1)

Subclass Constructors

116

(1)

Constructor Chaining and the Default Constructor

117

(2)

Hiding Superclass Fields

119

(1)

Overriding Superclass Methods

120

(3)

Data Hiding and Encapsulation

123

(5)

Access Control

124

(3)

Data Accessor Methods

127

(1)

Abstract Classes and Methods

128

(2)

Important Methods of java.lang.Object

130

(5)

toString()

132

(1)

equals()

132

(1)

hashCode()

133

(1)

Comparable.compareTo()

133

(1)

clone()

134

(1)

Interfaces

135

(5)

Defining an Interface

135

(1)

Implementing an Interface

136

(2)

Interfaces vs. Abstract Classes

138

(1)

Marker Interfaces

139

(1)

Interfaces and Constants

139

(1)

Nested Types

140

(16)

Static Member Types

141

(2)

Nonstatic Member Classes

143

(4)

Local Classes

147

(4)

Anonymous Classes

151

(3)

How Nested Types Work

154

(2)

Modifier Summary

156

(1)

C++ Features Not Found in Java

157

(2)

Java 5.0 Language Features

159

(44)

Generic Types

160

(18)

Typesafe Collections

160

(3)

Understanding Generic Types

163

(3)

Type Parameter Wildcards

166

(3)

Writing Generic Types and Methods

169

(7)

Generics Case Study: Comparable and Enum

176

(2)

Enumerated Types

178

(13)

Enumerated Types Basics

179

(2)

Using Enumerated Types

181

(4)

Advanced Enum Syntax

185

(5)

The Typesafe Enum Pattern

190

(1)

Annotations

191

(12)

Annotation Concepts and Terminology

192

(2)

Using Standard Annotations

194

(2)

Annotation Syntax

196

(2)

Annotations and Reflection

198

(1)

Defining Annotation Types

199

(2)

Meta-Annotations

201

(2)

The Java Platform

203

(96)

Java Platform Overview

203

(2)

Text

205

(12)

The String Class

205

(1)

The Character Class

206

(1)

The StringBuffer Class

206

(1)

The CharSequence Interface

207

(1)

The Appendable Interface

207

(1)

String Concatenation

208

(1)

String Comparison

208

(1)

Supplementary Characters

209

(1)

Formatting Text with printf() and format()

210

(1)

Logging

211

(1)

Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions

212

(3)

Tokenizing Text

215

(1)

String Tokenizer

216

(1)

Numbers and Math

217

(4)

Mathematical Functions

217

(1)

Random Numbers

218

(1)

Big Numbers

218

(1)

Converting Numbers from and to Strings

219

(1)

Formatting Numbers

220

(1)

Dates and Times

221

(3)

Milliseconds and Nanoseconds

221

(1)

The Date Class

222

(1)

The Calendar Class

222

(1)

Formatting Dates and Times

223

(1)

Arrays

224

(1)

Collections

225

(13)

The Collection Interface

225

(2)

The Set Interface

227

(2)

The List Interface

229

(2)

The Map Interface

231

(3)

The Queue and BlockingQueue Interfaces

234

(2)

Collection Wrappers

236

(1)

Special-Case Collections

236

(1)

Converting to and from Arrays

237

(1)

Collections Utility Methods

237

(1)

Implementing Collections

238

(1)

Threads and Concurrency

238

(14)

Creating, Running, and Manipulating Threads

238

(3)

Making a Thread Sleep

241

(1)

Running and Scheduling Tasks

241

(4)

Exclusion and Locks

245

(2)

Coordinating Threads

247

(3)

Thread Interruption

250

(1)

Blocking Queues

251

(1)

Atomic Variables

252

(1)

Files and Directories

252

(2)

RandomAccessFile

253

(1)

Input/Output with java.io

254

(4)

Reading Console Input

254

(1)

Reading Lines from a Text File

254

(1)

Writing Text to a File

255

(1)

Reading a Binary File

255

(1)

Compressing Data

255

(1)

Reading Zip Files

256

(1)

Computing Message Digests

256

(1)

Streaming Data to and from Arrays

257

(1)

Thread Communication with Pipes

257

(1)

Networking with java.net

258

(5)

Networking with the URL Class

258

(1)

Working with Sockets

258

(1)

Secure Sockets with SSL

259

(2)

Servers

261

(1)

Datagrams

262

(1)

Testing the Reachability of a Host

263

(1)

I/O and Networking with java.nio

263

(13)

Basic Buffer Operations

264

(1)

Basic Channel Operations

265

(2)

Encoding and Decoding Text with Charsets

267

(1)

Working with Files

268

(3)

Client-Side Networking

271

(1)

Server-Side Networking

272

(1)

Nonblocking I/O

273

(3)

XML

276

(7)

Parsing XML with SAX

277

(1)

Parsing XML with DOM

278

(2)

Transforming XML Documents

280

(1)

Validating XML Documents

281

(2)

Evaluating XPath Expressions

283

(1)

Types, Reflection, and Dynamic Loading

283

(3)

Class Objects

284

(1)

Reflecting on a Class

284

(1)

Dynamic Class Loading

285

(1)

Dynamic Proxies

286

(1)

Object Persistence

286

(2)

Serialization

286

(1)

JavaBeans Persistence

287

(1)

Security

288

(2)

Message Digests

288

(1)

Digital Signatures

289

(1)

Signed Objects

290

(1)

Cryptography

290

(2)

Secret Keys

290

(1)

Encryption and Decryption with Cipher

291

(1)

Encrypting and Decrypting Streams

292

(1)

Encrypted Objects

292

(1)

Miscellaneous Platform Features

292

(7)

Properties

293

(1)

Preferences

294

(1)

Processes

295

(1)

Management and Instrumentation

296

(3)

Java Security

299

(9)

Security Risks

300

(1)

Java VM Security and Class File Verification

300

(1)

Authentication and Cryptography

301

(1)

Access Control

301

(3)

Java 1.0: The Sandbox

301

(1)

Java 1.1: Digitally Signed Classes

302

(1)

Java 1.2: Permissions and Policies

303

(1)

Security for Everyone

304

(2)

Security for System Programmers

304

(1)

Security for Application Programmers

304

(1)

Security for System Administrators

305

(1)

Security for End Users

305

(1)

Permission Classes

306

(2)

Programming and Documentation Conventions

308

(18)

Naming and Capitalization Conventions

308

(2)

Portability Conventions and Pure Java Rules

310

(2)

Java Documentation Comments

312

(8)

Structure of a Doc Comment

313

(1)

Doc-Comment Tags

314

(2)

Inline Doc Comment Tags

316

(2)

Cross-References in Doc Comments

318

(1)

Doc Comments for Packages

319

(1)

JavaBeans Conventions

320

(6)

Bean Basics

320

(1)

Bean Classes

321

(1)

Properties

322

(1)

Indexed Properties

322

(1)

Bound Properties

322

(1)

Constrained Properties

323

(1)

Events

324

(2)

Java Development Tools

326

(42)

apt

326

(1)

extcheck

327

(1)

jarsigner

328

(1)

jar

329

(3)

java

332

(6)

javac

338

(4)

javadoc

342

(6)

javah

348

(1)

javap

349

(2)

javaws

351

(1)

jconsole

352

(1)

jdb

353

(4)

jinfo

357

(1)

jmap

358

(1)

jps

358

(1)

jsadebugd

359

(1)

jstack

359

(1)

jstat

360

(2)

jstatd

362

(1)

keytool

362

(4)

native2ascii

366

(1)

pack200

366

(2)

policytool

368


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