COURSE 5055a | 4-DAY SESSION
Advanced Java Programming

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Course outline

Section I: Java Collections API

• Overview

• Basic Types of Collections
• What is the Collections API
• Characteristics
• Collections Prior to Java 2
• Advantages
  • Replacement for Arrays
  • Performance
  • Interoperability
  • Simple and Customizable
  • Encourages OO
• Collections API
  • Collection Interface
  • Iterators
  • List Interface
  • List Implementations
  • Set Interface
  • HashSet
  • Map Interface
  • Map.Entry Interface
  • Map Iteration
  • HashMap

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Lab Exercise: Collection and Map

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• Object Ordering
  • Comparable Interface
  • Comparator Interface
  • SortedSet Interface
  • TreeSet
  • SortedMap Interface
  • TreeMap
• Miscellaneous
  • Standard Constructors
  • Legacy Implementations
  • Wrapper Implementations
  • Algorithms
  • Arrays Class
  • Best Practices

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Lab Exercise: Comparable and SortedSet

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Section II: Nested and Inner Classes

• Top Level Classes
• Nested Classes
  • Static Nested Class
  • Inner Class
  • Local Inner Class
  • Anonymous Inner Class

Section III: Threads

• Overview
  • Features
  • Example
  • Multiprocessing
  • Multithreading
  • Reasons to Use Threads
  • Issues Using Threads
• Creating Threads
  • Thread Class
  • Runnable Interface
  • Thread States and Scheduling
• Thread API
  • Thread Instance Methods
  • Thread Class Methods
  • Object Methods
• Synchronization
  • Method Synchronization
  • Block Synchronization
• Working With Threads
  • What's Atomic?
  • Stopping a Thread
  • Pausing a Thread
• Example: A Multi-threaded GUI

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Lab Excerise

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Section IV: Network Programming with Sockets

• Overview
  • What is a socket
  • Client/Server Processes
  • TCP and UDP Protocols
• Three-tier Architecture
  • Model-View-Controller
• Example Application
  • SalesEntry Domain Object
  • InterfaceTier (View)
  • ApplicationTier (Controller)
  • DataTier (Model)
• Sending/Receiving Datagrams with UDP
  • DatagramPacket
  • DatagramSocket
  • Example

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Lab Exercise: NCAA Tournament Tracker

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Section V: Serialization

• Overview
  • Goals of Serialization
  • Contents of Serialized Objects
• Basic Serialization
  • Serializable Interface
  • Example: SalesEntry
  • Serializing/Deserializing an Object
• Customization
  • Transient Fields
  • writeObject/readObject Methods
  • Externalizable Interface
• Class Versioning
  • serialVersionUID
  • Compatable Changes
  • Incompatable Changes
• ObjectInputValidation
  • Deserialization as a Transaction
  • Example

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Lab Exercise: AddressBook Application

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Section VI: Reflection

• Overview
  • What is Java Reflection
  • Example
• Reflection API
  • java.lang.Class
  • Discovery of Attributes, Fields, and Methods
  • java.lang.reflect.Member
  • java.lang.reflect.Field
  • java.lang.reflect.Constructor
  • java.lang.reflect.Method

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Lab Exercise: Classbrowser

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Section VII: Testing with JUnit

• Overview
  • Why Unit Test?
  • Test-driven Development (TDD)
  • What is JUnit
• Running JUnit Tests
  • JUnit TestRunner
  • JUnit Swing UI
• JUnit Framework
  • TestSuite
  • TestCase
  • Assert
  • Failures and Errors
  • TestCase Guidelines
  • Example
• Apache Ant
  • What is Ant
  • Why Use Ant?
  • How Does Ant Work?
  • Using Ant to Run Unit Tests
• Other Testing Tools

Section VIII: Logging API

• Overview
  • What does the Logging API Do?
• Basic Architecture
  • Level Class
  • Logger Class
  • General Logging Methods
  • Convenience Methods
  • Configuration
  • Example
• Logging APi Details
  • Logger Hierarchy
  • Anonymous Loggers
  • Global Logger
  • LogRecord Class
  • LogManager Class
  • Logging Properties
• Handlers
  • ConsoleHandler
  • FileHandler
  • SocketHandler
  • MemoryHandler
• Formatters
  • SimpleFormatter
  • XMLFormatter
• Miscellaneous
  • Filter Interface
  • ErrorManager
  • Extending the Framework

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Lab Exercise

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Section IX: Remote Method Invocation (RMI)

• Distributed Computing
  • Benefits
  • Issues
  • RMI vs. CORBA
  • RPC
• Overview of RMI
  • Goals
  • Terminology
  • Local vs. Remote Objects
  • BLocking
  • Steps to Utilizing RMI
• RMI API
  • Remote Interface
  • Remote Exceptions
  • Naming
  • RemoteObject
  • RemoteServer
  • UnicastRemoteObject
• Example
  • AdderGUI
  • AdderImpl
  • Adder
  • AdderListener

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Lab Exercise: NCAA Tournament Tracker

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Section X: Regular Expressions

• Overview
  • What is Regex
  • Why Use Regex
• Regex Syntax
  • Structure of a Regular Expression
  • Atoms
  • Character Classes
  • Boundary Matchers
  • Quantifiers
  • Capturing and Non-Capturing Groups

Section XI: Java Regex API

• Overview
  • Special Considerations
  • Types of Regex Operations
• Regex API
  • Pattern Class
  • Matcher Class
• Operations
  • Matching
  • Capturing Groups
  • Replacement
  • Splitting
• Regex Support in String
  • Regex Operations
  • quoteReplacement
  • StringTokenizer vs. Split
• Scanner
  • Introduction
  • Example

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Lab Exercise: AddressBook

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Section XII: Preferences API

• Overview
  • What is Java Preferences
  • Classes and Interfaces
  • Preference Tree
• Preferences API
  • Preferences Class
  • Root and Node Instances
  • Storing and Retrieving Values
• Example

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Lab Exercise: AddressBook

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Section XII: Java NIO

• Overview
  • Comparison to Java IO
  • Reasons to USe NIO
• NIO Abstractions
  • Buffers
  • Character Sets
  • Channels
  • Selectors
• File Channels
  • API Details
  • Example: FileCopy
• Introduction to Socket Channels
  • API Details
  • Example SocketServer/SocketCLient
  • DatagramChannel

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Lab Exercise: FileConcat

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