A Programmers Guide to Java Certification: A Comprehensive Primer

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Copyright: 7/1/1999

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This guide allows readers to master the Java programming language, teaching them what they need to know to pass the Sun Certified Java Programmer Examination. The authors bring the sound pedagogical teaching practices from their university environment, while bearing in mind the practical result-oriented realities of the IT industry. No previous Java experience and only some programming experience is required. Readers also may find they can use this book as a self-study guide.

Preface

vii

About this book

vii

Using the book

viii

Book web sites

Conventions used in the book

Request for feedback

Authors' background

Acknowledgments

Basics of Java Programming

(19)

Introduction

(1)

Classes

(2)

Declaring Members: Variables and Methods

(1)

Objects

(2)

Class Instantiation

(1)

Object References

(1)

Instance Members

(1)

Invoking Methods

(1)

Static Members

(2)

Inheritance

(2)

Aggregation

(1)

Tenets of Java

(3)

Review Questions

(2)

Java Programs

(1)

Sample Standalone Java Application

(2)

Main Elements of a Java Standalone Application

(1)

Compiling and Running a Standalone Program

(1)

Sample Java Applet

(4)

Main Elements of an Applet

(1)

Compiling and Running an Applet

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Chapter Summary

(1)

Language Fundamentals

(21)

Language Building Blocks

(7)

Lexical Tokens

(1)

Identifiers

(1)

Keywords

(1)

Literals

(1)

Integer Literals

(2)

Floating-point Literals

(1)

Boolean Literals

(1)

Character Literals

(2)

String Literals

(1)

White Spaces

(1)

Comments

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Primitive Datatypes

(1)

Variable Declarations

(2)

Declaring, Initializing and Using Variables

(1)

Object Reference Variables

(1)

Integers

(1)

Characters

(1)

Floating-point Numbers

(1)

Booleans

(1)

Wrapper Classes

(2)

Review Questions

(1)

Initial Values for Variables

(3)

Default Values for Member Variables

(1)

Initializing Local Variables of Primitive Datatypes

(1)

Initializing Local Reference Variables

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Java Source File Structure

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

The main () Method

(3)

The main () Method Modifiers

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Chapter Summary

(1)

Programming Exercises

(1)

Operators and Assignments

(45)

Precedence and Associativity Rules for Operators

(1)

Conversions

(2)

Casting

(1)

Narrowing and Widening Conversions

(1)

Numeric Promotions

(1)

Type Conversion Contexts

(1)

Simple Assignment Operator =

(4)

Assigning Primitive Values

(1)

Assigning References

(1)

Multiple Assignments

(1)

Numeric Type Conversions on Assignment

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Arithmetic Operators: *, /, %, +, -

(5)

Arithmetic Operator Precedence and Associativity

(1)

Arithmetic Expression Evaluation

(1)

Numeric Promotions in Arithmetic Expressions

(2)

Arithmetic Extended Assignment Operators: *=, /=, %=, +=, -=

(1)

The Binary String Concatenation Operator +

(1)

Variable Increment and Decrement Operators: ++, --

(4)

Increment Operator ++

(1)

Decrement Operator --

(1)

Review Questions

(3)

Boolean Expressions

(1)

Relational Operators: <, <=, >, >=

(1)

Equality

(2)

Primitive Data Value Equality: ==, !=

(1)

Object Reference Equality: ==, !=

(1)

Object Value Equality

(1)

Boolean Logical Operators: !, ^, &, |

(2)

Operand Evaluation for Boolean Logical Operators

(1)

Boolean Logical Extended Assignment Operators: &=, ^=, |=

(1)

Conditional Operators; &&, ||

(1)

Short-circuit Evaluation

(1)

Representing Integers

(2)

Calculating 2's Complement

(1)

Integer Bitwise Operators: ~, &, |, ^

(2)

Bitwise Extended Assignment Operators: &=, ^=, |=

(1)

Shift Operators: <<, >>, >>>

(3)

The Shift-left Operator <<

(1)

The Shift-right-with-sign-fill Operator >>

(1)

The Shift-right-with-zero-fill Operator >>>

(1)

Shift Extended Assignment Operators: <<=, >>=, >>>=

(1)

The Conditional Operator? :

(1)

Other Operators: new, [], instanceof

(2)

Review Questions

(2)

Parameter Passing

(2)

Passing Primitive Data Values

(1)

Passing Object Reference Values

(2)

Passing Array References

(1)

Array Elements as Actual Parameters

(2)

final Parameters

(1)

Program Arguments

(4)

Review Questions

(1)

Chapter Summary

(1)

Programming Exercises

(1)

Declarations and Access Control

(46)

Arrays

(10)

Declaring Array Variables

(1)

Constructing an Array

(1)

Initializing an Array

(1)

Using an Array

(2)

Multidimensional Arrays

(2)

Anonymous Arrays

(1)

Review Questions

(3)

Defining Classes

(1)

Defining Methods

(3)

Statements

(1)

Instance Methods and Object Reference this

(1)

Method Overloading

(1)

Constructors

100

(5)

Default Constructor

101

(2)

Overloaded Constructors

103

(1)

Review Questions

103

(2)

Packages

105

(3)

Defining Packages

106

(1)

Using Packages

107

(1)

Accessibility Modifiers for Classes and Interfaces

108

(1)

Other Modifiers for Classes

109

(3)

abstract Classes

109

(1)

final Classes

110

(1)

Review Questions

111

(1)

Scope and Accessibility of Members

112

(2)

Class Scope for Members

112

(1)

Book Scope for Local Variables

113

(1)

Member Accessibility Modifiers

114

(7)

public Members

115

(2)

protected Members

117

(1)

Default Accessibility for Members

118

(1)

private Members

118

(2)

Review Questions

120

(1)

Other Modifiers for Members

121

(11)

static Members

121

(2)

final Members

123

(1)

abstract Methods

124

(1)

synchronized Methods

124

(1)

native Methods

125

(1)

transient Variables

126

(1)

volatile Variables

126

(1)

Review Questions

127

(3)

Chapter Summary

130

(1)

Programming Exercises

131

(1)

Flow Control and Exception Handling

132

(40)

Overview of Flow Control Statements

133

(1)

Selection Statements

133

(8)

Simple if Statement

133

(1)

if-else Statement

134

(2)

switch Statement

136

(4)

Review Questions

140

(1)

Iteration Statements

141

(4)

while Statement

142

(1)

do-while Statement

143

(1)

for Statement

143

(2)

Transfer Statements

145

(8)

break Statement

145

(2)

continue Statement

147

(1)

return Statement

148

(1)

Review Questions

149

(4)

Exception Handling

153

(3)

Exception Types

155

(1)

try, catch and finally Blocks

156

(4)

try Block

157

(1)

catch Block

157

(2)

finally Block

159

(1)

throw Statement

160

(2)

throws Clause

162

(10)

Review Questions

164

(5)

Chapter Summary

169

(1)

Programming Exercises

169

(3)

Object-oriented Programming

172

(51)

Inheritance

173

(6)

Object-oriented Programming Concepts

175

(3)

Review Questions

178

(1)

Method Overriding and Variable Shadowing

179

(8)

Method Overriding

179

(2)

Variable Shadowing

181

(1)

Overriding vs. Overloading

181

(2)

Object Reference super

183

(2)

Review Questions

185

(2)

Chaining Constructors using this () and super ()

187

(8)

this() Constructor Call

188

(2)

super() Constructor Call

190

(3)

Review Questions

193

(2)

Interfaces

195

(6)

Defining Interfaces

195

(2)

Implementing Interfaces

197

(1)

Extending Interfaces

197

(1)

Supertypes

198

(1)

Constants in Interfaces

199

(1)

Review Questions

199

(2)

Assigning, Passing and Casting References

201

(12)

Reference Assignment Conversions

204

(1)

Parameter Passing Conversions

205

(1)

Reference Casting and instanceof Operator

206

(3)

Converting References of Class and Interface Types

209

(1)

Review Questions

210

(3)

Polymorphism and Dynamic Method Lookup

213

(4)

Review Questions

216

(1)

Inheritance vs. Aggregation

217

(6)

Encapsulation

217

(1)

Choosing between Inheritance and Aggregation

217

(3)

Review Questions

220

(1)

Chapter Summary

221

(1)

Programming Exercises

222

(1)

Inner Classes

223

(27)

Overview of Nested Classes

224

(2)

Top-level Nested Classes and Interfaces

226

(4)

Non-static Inner Classes

230

(8)

Accessing Shadowed Members from Non-static Inner Classes

232

(2)

Compiling and Importing Non-static Inner Classes

234

(1)

Inheritance and Containment Hierarchy of Non-static Inner Classes

235

(1)

Review Questions

236

(2)

Local Classes

238

(5)

Access Rules for Local Classes

240

(1)

Instantiating Local Classes

240

(3)

Anonymous Classes

243

(7)

Extending an Existing Class

243

(2)

Implementing an Interface

245

(1)

Instantiating Anonymous Classes

245

(1)

Access Rules for Anonymous Classes

246

(1)

Review Questions

247

(2)

Chapter Summary

249

(1)

Programming Exercise

249

(1)

Object Lifetime

250

(21)

Garbage Collection

251

(6)

Object Lifetime

251

(1)

Cleaning Up

251

(1)

Object Finalization

252

(1)

Finalizer Chaining

253

(2)

Invoking Garbage Collection

255

(1)

Review Questions

255

(2)

Initializers

257

(14)

Variable Initializer Expressions

257

(3)

Static Initializer Blocks

260

(2)

Instance Initializer Blocks

262

(2)

Constructing Initial Object State

264

(3)

Review Questions

267

(3)

Chapter Summary

270

(1)

Threads

271

(24)

Multitasking

272

(1)

Threads

272

(1)

Main Thread

273

(1)

Thread Creation

273

(6)

Implementing the Runnable Interface

273

(3)

Extending the Thread Class

276

(2)

Review Questions

278

(1)

Synchronization

279

(4)

Monitors

279

(1)

Synchronized Methods

280

(1)

Synchronized Blocks

281

(1)

Review Questions

282

(1)

Thread Transitions

283

(12)

Thread States

283

(1)

Thread Priorities

284

(1)

Thread Scheduler

285

(1)

Running and Yielding

285

(1)

Sleeping and Waking Up

286

(1)

Waiting and Notifying

286

(4)

Miscellaneous Methods in the Thread Class

290

(2)

Review Questions

292

(1)

Chapter Summary

293

(1)

Programming Exercises

294

(1)

Fundamental Classes

295

(28)

Overview of the java. lang package

296

(1)

The Object Class

296

(3)

Review Questions

298

(1)

The Wrapper Classes

299

(4)

Common Wrapper Class Constructors

299

(1)

Common Wrapper Class Utility Methods

300

(1)

Boolean Class

301

(1)

Character Class

301

(1)

Numeric Wrapper Classes

301

(1)

Void Class

302

(1)

Review Questions

302

(1)

The Math Class

303

(4)

Miscellaneous Rounding Functions

303

(1)

Exponential Functions

304

(1)

Trigonometry Functions

305

(1)

Pseudo Random Number Generator

305

(1)

Review Questions

305

(2)

The String Class

307

(10)

Creating and Initializing Strings

307

(2)

Reading Individual Characters in a String

309

(1)

Comparing Strings

310

(1)

Character Case in a String

311

(1)

Concatenation of Strings

311

(1)

Searching for Characters and Substrings

312

(1)

Extracting Substrings

313

(1)

Conversion of Objects to Strings

313

(1)

Review Questions

314

(3)

The String Buffer Class

317

(6)

Constructing String Buffers

317

(1)

Changing and Reading Characters in String Buffers

318

(1)

Constructing Strings from String Buffers

318

(1)

Appending, Inserting and Deleting Characters in String Buffers

318

(2)

Controlling String Buffer Capacity

320

(1)

Review Questions

320

(1)

Chapter Summary

321

(1)

Programming Exercises

322

(1)

Collections

323

(28)

Collections Framework

324

(3)

Core interfaces

324

(1)

Implementations

325

(1)

Algorithms

326

(1)

Collections

327

(3)

Review Questions

329

(1)

Sets

330

(3)

Lists

333

(5)

Review Questions

336

(2)

Maps

338

(3)

Sorted Sets and Sorted Maps

341

(4)

Customizing Collections

345

(6)

Review Questions

348

(1)

Chapter Summary

349

(1)

Programming Exercise

350

(1)

AWT Components

351

(31)

Overview of the java.awt package

352

(1)

Components and Containers

352

(7)

Component Class

353

(2)

Container Class

355

(1)

Panel Class

355

(1)

Applet Class

355

(1)

Window Class

355

(1)

Frame Class

356

(1)

Dialog Class

357

(1)

Review Questions

357

(2)

GUI Control Components

359

(18)

Running the Examples

360

(1)

Button

361

(1)

Canvas

362

(1)

Checkbox and CheckboxGroup

363

(2)

Choice

365

(1)

Label

366

(1)

List

367

(2)

Scrollbar

369

(3)

TextField and TextArea

372

(3)

Review Questions

375

(2)

Menu Components

377

(5)

Review Questions

380

(1)

Chapter Summary

381

(1)

Programming Exercise

381

(1)

Layout Management

382

(30)

Layout Management Policies

383

(3)

Layout Managers

383

(1)

Common Methods for Designing a Layout

384

(1)

Communication between Container and Layout Manager

384

(1)

Layout and Preferred Size

385

(1)

Review Questions

386

(1)

Running the Example Code

386

(1)

FlowLayout Manager

387

(2)

Review Questions

388

(1)

GridLayout Manager

389

(3)

Review Questions

391

(1)

BorderLayout Manager

392

(4)

Review Questions

396

(1)

CardLayout Manager

396

(3)

Review Questions

399

(1)

GridBagLayout Manager

399

(7)

Review Questions

405

(1)

Customized Layout

406

(1)

Building Component Hierarchies

407

(5)

Chapter Summary

411

(1)

Programming Exercises

411

(1)

Event Handling

412

(38)

Overview of Event Handling

413

(1)

The Event Hierarchy

413

(8)

AWTEvent Classes

414

(1)

Semantic Event Classes

415

(2)

Low-level Events

417

(3)

Review Questions

420

(1)

The Event Delegation Model

421

(8)

Review Questions

427

(2)

Event Adapters

429

(4)

Evetn Listeners as Anonymous Inner Classes

432

(1)

Building GUI-based Applications

433

(8)

Review Questions

439

(2)

Low-Level Event Processing

441

(9)

Review Questions

447

(1)

Chapter Summary

448

(1)

Programming Exercises

448

(2)

Painting

450

(37)

Rendering Graphics

451

(3)

Graphics Context

451

(1)

Drawing Components

451

(2)

The Graphics Class

453

(1)

Using Color

454

(4)

Review Questions

456

(2)

Remdering Text and Working with Fonts

458

(4)

Drawing Shapes

462

(9)

Drawings Lines

462

(1)

Drawing Rectangles

463

(3)

Drawing Ovals

466

(1)

Drawing Arcs

467

(2)

Drawing Polygons

469

(2)

Clipping

471

(4)

Review Questions

473

(2)

The AWT Thread

475

(2)

Organizing Painting and Event Handling

477

(4)

Painting Modes

479

(2)

Handling Images

481

(6)

Review Questions

485

(1)

Chapter Summary

486

(1)

Programming Exercise

486

(1)

Applets

487

(22)

Creating Applets

488

(1)

Running Applets

488

(7)

HTML APPLET Element

489

(2)

HTML OBJECT Element

491

(1)

Applet Layout Management Specification

491

(2)

Applet Code Specification

493

(2)

Applet Life Cycle

495

(2)

Review Questions

496

(1)

Applets and Threads

497

(3)

Other Useful Methods of the Applet Class

500

(1)

Supplying Applet Parameters

501

(2)

Using Images and Sound in Applets

503

(2)

JAR Files

505

(1)

Applet Security

506

(3)

Review Questions

507

(1)

Chapter Summary

508

(1)

Programming Exercises

508

(1)

Swing

509

(39)

Swing Overview

510

(2)

Heavyweight and Lightweight Components

511

(1)

Swing and the AWT

511

(1)

Swing Packages

512

(1)

The Root Pane Container Model

512

(4)

Swing Components

516

(15)

Root Containers

517

(1)

JComponent

518

(1)

Labels and Buttons

519

(2)

Basic Components

521

(2)

Text Components

523

(2)

Space-saving Components

525

(1)

Components with Complex Models

526

(3)

Large Compound Components

529

(1)

Review Questions

530

(1)

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