Beginning Java 7 by Friesen, Jeff -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Copyright Contents at a Glance Contents About the Author About the Technical Reviewer Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Getting Started with Java

What Is Java?

Java Is a Language Java Is a Platform

Installing and Working with JDK 7

Installing JDK 7 Working with JDK 7

Installing and Working with NetBeans 7

Installing NetBeans 7 Working with NetBeans 7

Java Language Fundamentals

Comments Identifiers Types Variables Expressions Statements

Summary

Chapter 2: Discovering Classes and Objects

Declaring Classes and Creating Objects

Declaring Classes Creating Objects with the new Operator and a Constructor Specifying Constructor Parameters and Local Variables Creating Arrays with the new Operator

Encapsulating State and Behaviors

Representing State via Fields Representing Behaviors via Methods Hiding Information

Initializing Classes and Objects Inheriting State and Behaviors

Extending Classes The Ultimate Superclass Composition The Trouble with Implementation Inheritance

Changing Form

Upcasting and Late Binding Abstract Classes and Abstract Methods Downcasting and Runtime Type Identification Covariant Return Types

Formalizing Class Interfaces

Declaring Interfaces Implementing Interfaces Extending Interfaces Why Use Interfaces?

Collecting Garbage Summary

Chapter 3: Exploring Advanced Language Features

Nested Types

Static Member Classes Nonstatic Member Classes Anonymous Classes Local Classes Interfaces Within Classes

Packages

What Are Packages? The Package Statement The Import Statement Searching for Packages and Types Playing with Packages Packages and JAR Files

Static Imports Exceptions

What Are Exceptions? Representing Exceptions in Source Code Throwing Exceptions Handling Exceptions Performing Cleanup

Assertions

Declaring Assertions Using Assertions Avoiding Assertions Enabling and Disabling Assertions

Annotations

Discovering Annotations Declaring Annotation Types and Annotating Source Code Processing Annotations

Generics

Collections and the need for Type Safety Generic Types Generic Methods Arrays and Generics Varargs and Generics

Enums

The Trouble with Traditional Enumerated Types The Enum Alternative The Enum Class

Summary

Chapter 4: Touring Language APIs

Math and StrictMath Package Primitive Type Wrapper Class

Boolean Character Float and Double Integer, Long, Short, and Byte Number

Reference

Basic Terminology Reference and ReferenceQueue SoftReference WeakReference PhantomReference

Reflection String StringBuffer and StringBuilder System Threading

Runnable and Thread Thread Synchronization

BigDecimal BigInteger Summary

Chapter 5: Collecting Objects

The Collections Framework

Architecture Overview Iterable and Collection List Set SortedSet NavigableSet Queue Deque Map SortedMap NavigableMap Utilities

Legacy Collections APIs Creating Your Own Collections Summary

Chapter 6: Touring Additional Utility APIs

Concurrency Utilities

Executors Synchronizers Concurrent Collections Locks Atomic Variables Additional Concurrency Utilities

Objects Random Summary

Chapter 7: Creating and Enriching Graphical User Interfaces

Abstract Window Toolkit

Toolkits Components, Containers, Layout Managers, and Events Images Data Transfer

Swing

An Extended Architecture Sampling Swing Components

Java 2D

GraphicsEnvironment, GraphicsDevice, and GraphicsConfiguration Graphics2D Shapes Buffered Images

Summary

Chapter 8: Interacting with Filesystems

File RandomAccessFile Streams

Stream Classes Overview OutputStream and InputStream FileOutputStream and FileInputStream FilterOutputStream and FilterInputStream BufferedOutputStream and BufferedInputStream DataOutputStream and DataInputStream Object Serialization and Deserialization PrintStream

Writers and Readers

Writer and Reader Classes Overview Writer and Reader OutputStreamWriter and InputStreamReader FileWriter and FileReader

Summary

Chapter 9: Interacting with Networks and Databases

Interacting with Networks

Communicating via Sockets Communicating via URLs Authentication Cookie Management

Interacting with Databases

Java DB JDBC

Summary

Chapter 10: Parsing, Creating, and Transforming XML Documents

What Is XML?

XML Declaration Elements and Attributes Character References and CDATA Sections Namespaces Comments and Processing Instructions Well-Formed Documents Valid Documents

Parsing XML Documents with SAX

Exploring the SAX API Demonstrating the SAX API Creating a Custom Entity Resolver

Parsing and Creating XML Documents with DOM

A Tree of Nodes Exploring the DOM API

Parsing and Creating XML Documents with StAX

Parsing XML Documents Creating XML Documents

Selecting XML Document Nodes with XPath

XPath Language Primer XPath and DOM Advanced XPath

Transforming XML Documents with XSLT

Exploring the XSLT API Demonstrating the XSLT API

Summary

Chapter 11: Working with Web Services

What Are Web Services?

SOAP-Based Web Services RESTful Web Services

Java and Web Services

Web Service APIs Web Service Annotations Web Service Tools Lightweight HTTP Server

Working with SOAP-Based Web Services

Creating and Accessing a Temperature-Conversion Web Service Accessing the Image Cutout Web Service

Working with RESTful Web Services

Creating and Accessing a Library Web Service Accessing Google's Charts Web Service

Advanced Web Service Topics

Working with SAAJ Logging SOAP Messages with a JAX-WS Handler Authentication and a Customized Lightweight HTTP Server RESTful Web Services and Attachments Providers and Dispatch Clients

Summary

Chapter 12: Java 7 Meets Android

Exploring Android and Android App Architectures

Android Architecture App Architecture

Installing the Android SDK and an Android Platform

Accessing System Requirements Installing the Android SDK Installing an Android Platform

Creating and Starting an AVD

Creating an AVD Starting the AVD

Creating, Installing, and Running an App

Introducing Java7MeetsAndroid Creating Java7MeetsAndroid Installing and Running Java7MeetsAndroid

Summary

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