Thinking in Java

preface

preface to the 2nd edition

the cd rom

introduction

prerequisites

learningjava

goals

online documentation

chapters

exercises

multirnedia cd rom

source code

java versions

seminars and

mentoring

errors

note on the cover design

acknowledgements

introduction

objects

.the progress

of abstraction

an object has

an interface

the hidden

implementation

reusing the

implementation

inheritance: reusing

the interface

interchangeable objects

with polymorphism

object landscapes and

lifetimes

exception handling:

dealing with errors

multithreading

persistence

java and the lnternet

analysis and design

extreme programming

why java succeeds

strategies for transition

java vs. c++?

summary

2: everything is

an object

you manipolate objects

with references

you must create

all the objeas

you never need to

destroy an object

creating new data

types: class

methods, arguments,

and return values

building a

java program

your first java program

comments and embedded

docomentation

coding style

summary

exercises

3 : controlling

program flow

using java operators

execution control

sommary

exercises

i4: initialization

& cleanup

guaranteed initialization

with the constructor

method overloading

cleanup : finalization

and garbage collection

member initialization

array initialization

summary

exercises

5:hidingthe

implem

package:

the libraty unit

java access specifiers

interface and

implementation

class access

summary

exercises

6: reusing-classes

composition syntax

inheritance syntax

combining composition

and inheritance

choosing composition

vs. inheritance

protected

incremental

development

upcasting

the final keyword

lnitialization and

class loading

summary

exercises

7:polymorphism

upcasting revisited

the twist

overriding vs.

overloading

abstract classes

and methods

constructors and

polymorphism

designing with

inheritance

summary

exercises

8:interfaces&

innerclassex

interfaces

inner classes

summary

exercises

9: holding

yourobjects

arrays

introduction to

containers

container disadvantage:

unknown type

iterators

container taxonomy

collection

functionality

list functionality

set functionality

map functionality

holding references

iterators revisited

choosing an

implementation

sorting and

searching lists

utilities

unsupported

operations

java 1.0/1.1containers

summary

exercises

10:error handing

with exceptions

basic exceptions

catching an exception

creating your own

exceptions

the exception

specification

standard java

exceptions

performing cleanup

with finally

exception restrictions

constructors

exception matching

summary

exercises

11:the java

i/o system

the file class

input and output

adding attributes

and useful interfaces

readers&writers

off by itself:

randomaccessfile

typical uses of

i/o streams

standard i/o

compression

object serialization

tokenizing input

summary

exercises

12:run-time type

identification

the need for rtti

rtti syntax

reflection:run-time

class information

summary

exercises

13:creation windows

&appets

the basic applet

running applets from

the command line

making a button

capturing an event

text areas

controlling layout

the swing event model

a catalig of swing

components

packaging an applet

into a jar file

programming

techniques

visual programming

and beans

summary

exercises

14:multiple threads

responsive

userinterfaces

sharing

limited resources

blocking

priorities

runnable revisited

summary

exercises

15:distributed

computing

network programming

java database

connectivity(jdbc)

servlets

java server pages

rmi(remotemethod

invocation)

corba

enterprise javabeans

jini:distributed

services

summary

exercises

a:passing&

returning objects

passing

references around

making local copies

controlling

cloneability

read-only classes

summary

exercises

b:the javanative

interface(jni)

calling a

native method

accessing jni functions:

the jnienvargument.1069

passing and

using java objects

jni and

javaexceptions

jniand threading

using a preexisting

code base

additional

information

c:java programming

guidelines

design

implementation

d: resources

software

books

index