Java Programming 2 / Java Advanced Developer

Course Introduction

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

Session 1: GENERICS

• Generic types
• Generic methods
• Bounded type parameters
• Generics and inheritance
• Type inference
• Wildcards
• Type erasure
• Restrictions

Session 2: COLLECTIONS

• The Collection interface hierarchy
• Iterable and Iterator
• Collection operations and traversal
• The Collections class
• Collection types (characteristics and implementations) incl. List, Set and Queue
• The Map interface hierarchy
• Map operations and traversal
• Map types (characteristics and implementations)

Session 3: hashCode, equals & compareTo/compare

• The Object class
• Overriding toString
• Equality and membership testing
• Hashing collections
• Overriding hashCode and equals
• The Comparable and Comparator interfaces
• Searching and sorting
• Overriding compareTo and compare

Session 4: NESTED CLASSES

• Static nested classes
• Inner classes
• Shadowing
• Local classes
• Anonymous classes
• Variable capture and effectively final

Session 5: LAMBDA EXPRESSIONS & METHOD REFERENCES

• What is a lambda expression?
• Lambda use case: collection filter
• Lambda syntax
• What is a method reference?
• Method reference use case: collection sort
• Method reference types x 4

Session 6: FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING

• What is functional programming?
• Functions as first class objects
• Pure functions
• Higher order functions
• Immutable objects
• Java's functional interfaces
• Functional composition

Session 7: STREAMS

• What is a stream?
• Obtaining/creating a stream
• Intermediate (non-terminal) operations
• Terminal operations
• The Optional class
• The Collectors class
• Stream concatenation
• Primitive streams

Session 8: EXCEPTIONS, ASSERTIONS & LOCALISATION

• Exceptions (a review)
• Custom exceptions
• Try with resources
• Assertions
• Dates and times
• Internationalisation and localisation
• Resource bundles

Session 9: MODULAR APPLICATIONS

• Modules (a review)
• Module types
• Analysing dependencies
• Migrating an existing application
• Creating a service

Session 10: CONCURRENCY

• Low-level threading incl. Runnable, sleep, join
• The Java memory model
• Threading problems incl. race conditions, deadlock, and starvation
• Immutable objects and ThreadLocal
• Thread synchronization incl. volatile, synchronized, atomic data types, and locks

Session 10 (Continued): CONCURRENCY

• ExecutorService, thread pools, Callable, and Future
• Concurrent and immutable collections
• Parallel streams

Session 11: I/O

• Files and directories
• I/O streams
• Common operations
• Binary data, character data, and serialisation
• Console I/O

Session 12: NIO.2

• What is NIO?
• Paths
• Manipulating the filesystem
• File attributes
• Listing, traversing, and searching a directory

Session 13: ANNOTATIONS

• What is an annotation?
• Form and application
• Standard annotations
• Declaring an annotation

Session 14: REFLECTION

• What is reflection?
• Modules, classes, constructors, fields, and methods
• Private members
• Annotations
• Generics and arrays
• Dynamic proxies
• Dynamic class loading

Session 15: SECURITY

• Securing objects
• Injection and input validation
• Handling confidential information
• Serialising and deserialising objects
• Sensitive objects
• Preventing denial of service attacks