Java Programming 2 / Java Advanced Developer

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: JAVA CLASS DESIGN

• Review of Core Java Class Design Principles
• The instanceof operator
• Virtual Method Invocation
• @Override Annotation
• Overriding equals, hashCode and toString
• Enums
• Nested Classes

Session 2: JAVA DESIGN PATTERNS

• Designing Interfaces
• Functional Programming
• Implementing Polymorphism
• Java Design Principles
• Singleton Pattern
• Immutable Objects
• Builder Pattern
• Factory Pattern

Session 3: GENERICS AND COLLECTIONS

• Review of Array and ArrayList and Diamond Operator
• Generic Classes, Interfaces and Methods
• Lists, Sets, Maps and Queues
• Comparable and Comparator
• Searching and Sorting
• Method References
• Conditional Removal of Elements
• Java Map APIs

Session 4: FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING AND STREAM API

• Using Variables in Lambdas
• Built-In Functional Interfaces
• Optional Objects
• Creating Stream Sources
• Terminal and Intermediate Operations
• Constructing a Pipeline
• Primitive Streams

Session 4 (Continued): FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING AND STREAM API

• Functional Interfaces for Primitives
• Linking Streams to Underlying Data
• Chaining Optionals
• Collecting Results

Session 5: DATES, STRINGS AND LOCALISATION

• Date and Time API Classes
• Creating Dates and Times
• Manipulating Dates and Times
• Periods
• Durations
• Daylight Saving Time
• String Class Functionality
• Internationalisation and Localisation
• Locales
• Resource Bundles
• Formatting Numbers
• Formatting Dates and Times

Session 6: EXCEPTIONS AND ASSERTIONS

• Exceptions Terminology
• Categories of Exceptions
• Try Statement
• Throw Statement
• Throws Statement
• Custom Exceptions
• Multi-Catch Blocks
• Try-With-Resources
• AutoCloseable
• Suppressed Exceptions
• Rethrowing Exceptions
• The assert Statement
• Enabling Assertions

Session 7: CONCURRENCY

• Thread Types and Concurrency
• Runnable Interface
• Creating Threads
• Polling with Sleep
• Using ExecutorService
• Thread Pools
• Synchronising Data Access
• Atomic Classes
• Synchronised Blocks and Methods
• Concurrent Collections
• Memory Consistency Errors
• Parallel Streams
• Processing Parallel Reductions
• CyclicBarrier Class
• Fork/Join Framework
• Threading Problems and Race Conditions

Session 8: IO

• Conceptualising the File System
• File Class
• IO Streams
• FileInputStream and FileOutputStream

Session 8 (Continued): IO

• FileReader and FileWriter
• ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream
• Serialising and Deserialising Objects
• PrintStream and PrintWriter
• Console

Session 9: NIO.2

• Path Class
• Interacting with Paths and Files
• File Attributes
• File Attribute View Classes
• Directory Walking
• Legacy File vs. NIO.2 Methods

Session 10: JDBC

• Relational Databases and SQL
• JDBC Interfaces
• Connecting to a Database
• Statements, ResultSet Types and Concurrency Modes
• Executing Statements
• Getting Data from a ResultSet
• Closing Database Resources
• Dealing with Exceptions