Java Precisely

by Peter Sestoft

• ISBN13: 9780262692762
• ISBN10: 0262692767
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Java Preciselyprovides a concise reference for the Java programming language and some of its essential libraries. The book covers Java 2, versions 1.3 and 1.4. It is intended both for students learning Java and for more experienced Java programmers. Though written informally, it describes the language in detail and provides many examples. To improve clarity, most of the general rules appear on left-hand pages with the relevant examples on the opposite right-hand pages.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Notational Conventions	ix
Running Java: Compilation, Loading, and Execution	2	(1)
Names and Reserved Names	2	(1)
Java Naming Conventions	2	(1)
Comments and Program Layout	2	(2)
Types	4	(2)
Primitive Types	4	(1)
Reference Types	4	(1)
Array Types	4	(1)
Subtypes and Compatibility	5	(1)
Signatures and Subsumption	5	(1)
Variables, Parameters, Fields, and Scope	6	(2)
Values Bound to Variables, Parameters, or Fields	6	(1)
Variable Declarations	6	(1)
Scope of Variables, Parameters, and Fields	6	(2)
Strings	8	(2)
Arrays	10	(4)
Array Creation and Access	10	(1)
Array Initializers	10	(2)
Multidimensional Arrays	12	(1)
The Utility Class Arrays	12	(2)
Classes	14	(12)
Class Declarations and Class Bodies	14	(1)
Top-Level Classes, Nested Classes, Member Classes, and Local Classes	14	(1)
Class Modifiers	14	(2)
The Class Modifiers public, final, abstract	16	(1)
Subclasses, Superclasses, Class Hierarchy, Inheritance, and Overriding	16	(2)
Field Declarations in Classes	18	(1)
The Member Access Modifiers private, protected, public	18	(2)
Method Declarations	20	(2)
Constructor Declarations	22	(1)
Initializer Blocks, Field Initializers, and Initializers	22	(2)
Nested Classes, Member Classes, Local Classes, and Inner Classes	24	(1)
Anonymous Classes	24	(2)
Classes and Objects in the Computer	26	(2)
What Is a Class?	26	(1)
What Is an Object?	26	(1)
Inner Objects	26	(2)
Expressions	28	(13)
Table of Expression Forms	28	(2)
Arithmetic Operators	30	(1)
Logical Operators	30	(1)
Bitwise Operators and Shift Operators	30	(2)
Assignment Expressions	32	(1)
Conditional Expressions	32	(1)
Object Creation Expressions	32	(1)
Instance Test Expressions	32	(2)
Field Access Expressions	34	(1)
The Current Object Reference this	34	(2)
Method Call Expressions	36	(4)
Type Cast Expressions and Type Conversion	40	(1)
Statements	41	(11)
Expression Statements	41	(1)
Block Statements	41	(1)
The Empty Statements	41	(1)
Choice Statements	42	(2)
Loop Statements	44	(2)
Returns, Labeled Statements, Exits, and Exceptions	46	(4)
The assert Statement	50	(2)
Interfaces	52	(2)
Interface Declarations	52	(1)
Classes Implementing Interfaces	52	(2)
Exceptions, Checked and Unhecked	54	(2)
Threads, Concurrent Execution, and Synchronization	56	(6)
Threads and Concurrent Execution	56	(2)
Locks and the synchronized Statement	58	(2)
Operations on Threads	60	(2)
Compilation, Source Files, Class Names, and Class Files	62	(1)
Packages and Jar Files	62	(2)
Mathematical Functions	64	(2)
String Buffers	66	(2)
Collections and Maps	68	(14)
The Collection Interface	70	(1)
The List Interface and the LinkedList and ArrayList Implementations	71	(1)
The Set Interface and the HashSet and LinkedHashSet Implementations	72	(1)
The SortedSet Interface and the TreeSet Implementation	72	(1)
The Map Interface and the HashMap Implementation	73	(1)
The SortedMap Interface and the TreeMap Implementation	74	(2)
Going Through a Collection: Iterator	76	(1)
Equality, Comparison, and Hash Codes	76	(2)
The Utility Class Collections	78	(2)
Choosing the Right Collection Class or Map Class	80	(2)
Input and Output	82	(24)
Creating Streams from Other Streams	83	(1)
Kinds of Input and Output Methods	84	(1)
Imports, Exceptions, Thread Safety	84	(2)
Sequential Character Input: Readers	86	(1)
Sequential Character Output: Writers	87	(1)
Printing Primitive Data to a Character Stream: PrintWriter	88	(2)
Reading Primitive Data from a Character Stream: StreamTokenizer	90	(2)
Sequential Byte Input: InputStream	92	(1)
Sequential Byte Output: OutputStream	93	(1)
Binary Input-Output of Primitive Data: DataInput and DataOutput	94	(2)
Serialization of Objects: ObjectInput and ObjectOutput	96	(2)
Buffered Input and Output	98	(2)
Random Access Files: RandomAccessFile	100	(2)
Files, Directories, and File Descriptors	102	(1)
Thread Communication: PipedInputStream and PipedOutputStream	102	(2)
Socket Communication	104	(2)
References	106	(1)
Index	107